Calculating dispersion in glm

Hi all,

How is dispersion calculated within the glm function in R ?

It isn't.

It's calculated within the summary.glm function (or supplied by the user).
as
 sum(object$weights * object$residuals^2)/df.r

which works out to be equal to the mean square of the Pearson residuals.

	-thomas

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