Again my thanks!
John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology
Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 North Greene Street
GRECC (BT/18/GR)
Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
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>>> Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> 4/5/2012 4:42 PM >>>
If you look at the code for summary.lm the line for the value of sigma is:
ans$sigma <- sqrt(resvar)
and above that we can see that resvar is defined as:
resvar <- rss/rdf
If that is not sufficient you can find how rss and rdf are computed in
the code as well.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:56 AM, John Sorkin <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
> Is the sigma from a lm, i.e.
>
> fit1 <- lm(y~x)
> summary(fit1)
> summary(fit1)$sigma
>
> the RMSE (root mean square error)
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology
> Baltimore VA Medical Center
> 10 North Greene Street
> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
> (Phone) 410-605-7119
> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
>
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