David Winsemius
On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Suresh Krishna wrote:
>
> David Winsemis wrote:
>
>> I think you should read (or re-read) the locfit help page and
>> *also* the links from that page to the help pages for locfit.raw
>> and rv. I would have thought that since family= is not an argument
>> to locfit per se, but rather is documented in locfit.raw that you
>> have yet done so, but perhaps not?
>
> I did read the help pages for locfit.raw, and found:
>
> "Local likelihood family; "gaussian"; "binomial"; "poisson"; "gamma"
> and "geom". Density and rate estimation families are "dens", "rate"
> and "hazard" (hazard rate). If the family is preceded by a 'q' (for
> example, family="qbinomial"), quasi-likelihood variance estimates
> are used. Otherwise, the residual variance (rv) is fixed at 1. The
> default family is "qgauss" if a response y is provided; "density" if
> no response is provided. "
>
> However, since the fake data were generated from a known gaussian
> distribution, I did not imagine that using family=gaussian would
> lead to such wildly different results. This is what I was hoping to
> understand, without having to struggle with Catherine's Loader book
> in order to understand the above paragraph deeply enough that this
> behavior makes sense.
>
> Thanks again, Suresh
>
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