HI, John,
my understanding is that you should use log(...) instead of its
original scale. Below is the logic in the case of poisson reg.
log(y / offset) = x'b
=> log(y) - log(offset) = x'b
=> log(y) = x'b + log(offset)
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:01 PM, John Sorkin
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> R 2.6.0
> Windows XP
>
> A question about running a generalized linear model.
>
> I am running a glm with
> (1) a poisson distribution and a log link:
> family=poisson(link = "log")
> and an offset.
> I would like to know if I should express the offset as the log of the offset
> value, i.e.
> offset=log(NumUniqPt)
> or as:
> offset=NumUniqPt
>
> I suspect I need to use the log, bu t I can't find any discussion of this in
> MASS 1994 or on the man page for glm.
> Thanks
> John
>
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