我对带有伽玛分布因变量的GLM的参数解释有疑问。这是R通过日志链接返回给我的GLM的结果:
Call:
glm(formula = income ~ height + age + educat + married + sex + language + highschool,
family = Gamma(link = log), data = fakesoep)
Deviance Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-1.47399 -0.31490 -0.05961 0.18374 1.94176
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.2202325 0.2182771 28.497 < 2e-16 ***
height 0.0082530 0.0011930 6.918 5.58e-12 ***
age 0.0001786 0.0009345 0.191 0.848
educat 0.0119425 0.0009816 12.166 < 2e-16 ***
married -0.0178813 0.0173453 -1.031 0.303
sex -0.3179608 0.0216168 -14.709 < 2e-16 ***
language 0.0050755 0.0279452 0.182 0.856
highschool 0.3466434 0.0167621 20.680 < 2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
(Dispersion parameter for Gamma family taken to be 0.1747557)
Null deviance: 757.46 on 2999 degrees of freedom
Residual deviance: 502.50 on 2992 degrees of freedom
AIC: 49184
如何解释参数?如果我计算exp(coef())
模型,则截距约为500。现在我相信,如果所有其他变量都保持不变,这并不意味着预期收入吗?由于平均值mean(age)
约为2000。因此,我不知道如何解释协变量系数的方向和值。