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Retrieving probit or logit standard errors: SUMMARY

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Subject: Retrieving probit or logit standard errors: SUMMARY
From: "Pattison, David H." <David.H.Pattison@ssa.gov>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:46:40 -0400
The original question is below.  Thanks to Andreas Christmann and Brian
Ripley
for the answer:

        out <- glm( y~xmat, family=binomial (link=probit) )
        b <- summary(out)$coef[,1]
        se <- summary(out)$coef[,2]

This works. (A third column of summary()$coef provides t statistics.)

        -- David Pattison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pattison, David H. 
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:57 AM
> To:   's-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu'
> Subject:      Retrieving probit or logit standard errors: SUMMARY
> 
> 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.
> 
>       --------------------------------------------
> 
>       David Pattison
>       Social Security Administration
>       500 E Street SW - 9th Floor
>       Washington, DC 20254-0001
> 
>       Phone: 202-358-6240
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>       e-mail: david.h.pattison@ssa.gov
> 

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