Re: [R] back transforming output from negative binomial

2008-10-02 Thread Ben Bolker
Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: > Ben, fantastic. Thank you for confirming it. > > One more question. What do you call the back transformed variable? > > In my domain, people use something called the ratio of mean but I am not > sure if it is the same. I am not what the "ratio" is between. It depe

Re: [R] back transforming output from negative binomial

2008-10-02 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Ben, fantastic. Thank you for confirming it. One more question. What do you call the back transformed variable? In my domain, people use something called the ratio of mean but I am not sure if it is the same. I am not what the "ratio" is between. Regards, Adai Ben Bolker wrote: Adaikalava

Re: [R] back transforming output from negative binomial

2008-10-02 Thread Ben Bolker
Adaikalavan Ramasamy imperial.ac.uk> writes: > > Dear all, > > I used the glm.nb with the default values from the MASS package to run a > negative binomial regression. Here is a simple example: [snip -- thanks for the example!] > The question now is how do I report the results, say, for height