Re: [Rd] Problem with confint function

2011-02-11 Thread peter dalgaard
On Feb 11, 2011, at 19:25 , Kino Aguilar wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently doing logistic regression analyses and I am trying to get > confidence intervals for my partial logistic regression coefficients. > Supposing I am right in assuming that the formula to estimate a 95% CI for a > log odds coe

Re: [Rd] Problem with confint function

2011-02-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Kino, The confidence intervals that you've computed yourself are based on the Wald statistic, while confint() computes confidence intervals based on the likelihood-ratio statistic, by profiling the likelihood (see ?confint and click on the link for confint.glm). Basing confidence intervals on