glmDS1 {dsBase}

R Documentation

glmDS1 called by ds.glm

Description

This is the first serverside aggregate function called by ds.glm

Usage

glmDS1(formula, family, weights, offset, data)

Arguments

formula	a glm() formula consistent with R syntax eg U~x+y+Z to regress variables U on x,y and Z
family	a glm() family consistent with R syntax eg "gaussian", "poisson", "binomial"
weights	an optional variable providing regression weights
offset	the offset
data	an optional character string specifying a data.frame object holding the data to be analysed under the specified model

Details

It is an aggregation function that sets up the model structure and creates the starting beta.vector that feeds, via ds.glm, into glmDS2 to enable iterative fitting of the generalized linear model that has been been specified. For more details please see the extensive header for ds.glm.

Author(s)

Burton PR for DataSHIELD Development Team

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