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Retrieving probit or logit standard errors: REVISED

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Subject: Retrieving probit or logit standard errors: REVISED
From: "Pattison, David H." <David.H.Pattison@ssa.gov>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:56:55 -0400
Please ignore the second question below.  Karry Southworth has reminded me
that glm will accept a regressor matrix, e.g.,

        glm(y~xmat).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pattison, David H. 
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:19 AM
> To:   's-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu'
> Subject:      Retrieving probit or logit standard errors
> 
> 
> The function glm with family=binomial (link=probit) [or link=logit] will
> give the estimated coefficients and standard errors in the printed
> output.  I would like to run N such probits, calculating for each one a
> test statistic using the estimated coefficients and standard errors, and
> saving each of the statistics as I go along.  I have not been able to
> figure out how to retrieve the standard errors (or even how to retrieve
> the variance matrix from which they could be calculated, although
> there is a returned matrix, R, that looks like it might be used for this
> purpose).  Is there an easy method to retrieve these standard errors?
> 
> A related question: Is there some way to send glm a y vector and an x
> matrix (y,xmat), rather than a formula (y~x1+x2...)?
> 
> I have using Splus 4.5 on Windows NT, but I have available Splus 2000
> and a preview version pf Splus 6.
> 
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