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warning message in a glm model

2 messages · Alfonso Pérez, (Ted Harding)

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On 21-Mar-08 15:59:05, Alfonso P?rez wrote:
There was effectively the same question from Werner Wernersen:
"[R] glm.fit: "fitted probabilities numerically 0 or 1 occurr"
11 March 2008 08:58:55.

See my response to him:
"Re: [R] glm.fit: "fitted probabilities numerically 0 or 1 occurr"
From: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:08:09 -0000 (GMT)

which covers the maun issues.

The underlying reason is that some linear function of your
covariates compeletly separates the "Y=1" cases from the
"Y=0" cases, so the GLM can predict probability 1 for "Y=1",
and probability 0 for "Y=0".

Best wishes,
Ted.

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