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anova.glm (PR#7624)

A poisson family has dispersion 1 by definition of 'Poisson'.
You need a quasipoisson family to use a moment estimate of dispersion.

This difference is described on the help page for anova.glm.
Note the estimated dispersion *is* used and *is* one:
[1] 1

as it ought to be (and is in S-PLUS too).  That it is not used in S-PLUS 
is not documented (and it is not used in summary.glm either) and is at 
least an inconsistency.

Your assumption that R is wrong and S-PLUS (sic) is correct is not 
appreciated.  Why did you file this as an R bug and not an S-PLUS one?
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 yuedong@pstat.ucsb.edu wrote:

            
But not in the one in R!