You'll probably need to consult a suitable text on linear models/applied regression, as this is a statistics, not an R question -- or look for a suitable tutorial on the web. You might also try one of the statistics mailing lists or Google on some suitable phrase.
Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of DispersionMap Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:06 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] weighted least squares vs linear regression I need to find out the difference between the way R calculates weighted regression and standard regression. I want to plot a 95% confidence interval around an estimte i got from least squares regression. I cant find he documentation for this ive looked in ?stats ?lm ?predict.lm ?weights ?residuals.lm Can anyone shed light? thanks Chris. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/weighted-least-squares-vs-linear-regression-tp1387957p1 387957.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.