[R] logistic regression without intercept

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> writes:

> Thanks to Thomas Lumley, Spencer Graves, and Steve Sullivan for their
> advice on and off list to modify the formula with +0 (which I did; it
> worked) or -1 at the end.
...
> > > Also, I noticed that S-Plus but not R has a glim routine that uses
> > > maximum likelihood.  What would be the equivalent?
> > 
> > glm.
> > 
> I thought glm was a minimize the deviations approach, which is different
> from maximize likelihood.

It minimizes deviance, which is a constant minus twice the
log-likelihood.... I.e. it's equivalent to ML (unless you want to
quibble about bias-corrected scale parameter estimation in the
Gaussian case.)

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