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Re: st: Fw: influential observations
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Fw: influential observations
Date
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:13:25 +0100 (BST)
--- On Tue, 12/4/11, Nick Cox wrote:
> Do Anscombe residuals come out normal
> with non-normal families? I am
> away from any pertinent literature.
Quoting Hardin and Hilbe (2001), page 54 (when
discussing the definition of Ancombe residuals):
"The choice of function A(.) was made so that
the resulting residuals would be as normal as
possible"
So the answer seems to be that at least it
tries to approximate a normal/Gaussian
distribution.
-- Maarten
James W. Hardin and Joseph M. Hilbe (2001)
"Generalized Linear Models and Extensions",
second edition. College Station, TX:
Stata-Press.
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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