diff --git a/model-basics.Rmd b/model-basics.Rmd index 20dee1d..0a662a8 100644 --- a/model-basics.Rmd +++ b/model-basics.Rmd @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ This chapter has focussed exclusively on the class of linear models, which assum between the parameter vector and the origin). This tends to make models that generalise better to new datasets from the same population. -* __Robust linear models__, e.g. `MASS:rlm()`, tweak the distance to downweight +* __Robust linear models__, e.g. `MASS::rlm()`, tweak the distance to downweight points that are very far away. This makes them less sensitive to the presence of outliers, at the cost of being not quite as good when there are no outliers.