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Hello list, Is there any mean to fit models for ordinal response other than multinomial polytomous ("multinom" from nnet ) and cumulative logit ("polr" from MASS)? I am particularly interested in continuation-ratio model and adjacent-category logit model. It is for the sake of epidemiology in wild-living populations! Many thanks, Emmanuelle Fromont

Hello All: I know the function loglin() and loglm() from librarary(MASS) performs analysis on nominal categorical data. Are there any libraries, functions or examples available for analysis of ordinal categorical data? I have in mind procedures that can replicate results in Alan Agresti (1984) "Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data." Thanks, ANDREW

Hi, I am working on a regression tree in Rpart that uses a continuous response variable that is ordered. I read a previous response by Pfr. Ripley to a inquiry regarding the ability of rpart to handle ordinal responses in 2003. At that time rpart was unable to implement an algorithm to handle ordinal responses. Has there been any effort to rectify this in recent years? Thanks! Stacey On

Hello, I am trying to run an ordinal logistic regression (polr) using the package 'MASS'. I have successfully run other regression classes (glm, multinom) without much problem, but with the 'polr' class I get the following error: " Error in svd(X) : infinite or missing values in 'x' " which appears when I run the "summary" command. The data file is

R-Experts: I am using the vglm function of the VGAM library to perform proportional odds ordinal logistic regression. The issue that I would like help with concerns the format in which the response variable must be provided for this function to work correctly. Consider the following example: ------ library(VGAM) library(MASS) attach(pneumo) pneumo # Inspect the format of the original dataset

Hi Everyone, I have some data that predicts both a nominal and ordinal response variable. I was wondering what packages in R would help me analyze the data? I was also curious if anyone could recomend me some textbooks that would help with the analysis of such data? I have the 5th edition of "Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis" by Richard A. Johnson and Dean W. Wichern

Hello, I am searching for an R-Package that does an exentsion of the Mantel-Haenszel test for ordinal data as described in Liu and Agresti (1996) "A Mantel-Haenszel type inference for cummulative odds ratios". in Biometrics. I see packages such as Epi that perform it for binary data and derives a varaince for it using the Robbins and Breslow variance method. As well as another pacakge

I have a data set w/ an ordinal response taking on one of 10 categories. I am considering using polr to fit a cumulative logits model. I previously fit the model in SAS (using proc logistic) which provides a test for the proportional odds assumption (p < 0.001 for the test). Are there simple diagnostic plots that can be used to look at the validity of this assumption and possibly help w/

What function and package I use to conduct ordinal regression?? My data is composed 2colums and 180rows. The first colum indicate level of mass and second colum is intensity. So, I want to calculate how much intensity are related mass. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi all I'm have a character vector and would like to suppress the blanks if there are more than one after the other. Example: Character value is: "abc def ghi" The result should be: "abc def ghi" I know that it's possible to delete the leading blanks with the command "trim". But how can I delete blanks within a character? Thank you very much in

Hello, I am trying to do a logistic regression and have one predictor variable (x) that is ratio and two predictor variables (y and z) that are categorical. These have three levels each which I have called "High", "Medium" and "Low". My question: do I need to use a numerical coding scheme for the categorical variables as required by some statistical software

I want to fit a multinomial model with logit link. For example let this matrix to be analyzed: male female aborted factor 10 12 1 1.2 14 14 4 1.3 15 12 3 1.4 (this is an example, not the true data which are far more complex...) I suppose the correct function to analyze these data is polr from MASS library. The data have been

Hi all I have a dataset whose response is a categorical variable of the ordinal scale type (6 levels). I'm interested in building classification models, and I'm wondering if there is something implemented in R (or its packages) that I'm not aware of, to treat the ordinal scale measurements straightforwardly. I can think of the alternative of building a conditional (hierarchical)

I'd like to estimate an ordinal logistic regression with a random effect for a grouping variable. I do not find a pre-packaged algorithm for this. I've found methods glmmML (package: glmmML) and lmer (package: lme4) both work fine with dichotomous dependent variables. I'd like a model similar to polr (package: MASS) or lrm (package: Design) that allows random effects. I was

Hello I am running R 1.8.1 on a Windows platform I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley. But when I try model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex) + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data = duhray) I get a message

I have used plor() to model a rather large 3-category dataset (~1500 data points, ~15 independent variables); from the resulting model (with a deviance slightly below the residual degrees of freedom), the training data are placed in only the two extreme categories. Though the result appears to indicate that there's only a relative 'narrow' bin for the medium group, [and when the

Hi: Is there any function in R to fit ordinal regression models (linear and non-linear) described by Peter McCullagh. Regression Models for Ordinal Data, JRSS-B, 1980, 42:109-142 Thanks, Venkat ----------------------------------------------------------------------- E. S. Venkatraman, Ph.D. Phone: (212) 639-8520 Fax: (212) 717-3137 Assistant Attending Member Memorial

Hello! I've a question to the rpart package. With the snip.rpart function, you can snip off subtrees. In R 1.5.1 this function works without problems. But in the new version of R (1.6.0) it isn't possible to snip off the subtrees wi th this function. Does someone have a solution for this problem? thsudler at swissonline.ch

Hi, I am searching for methods to compare regression models with an ordered categorical response variable (polr versus multinom). The pattern of predictions of both methods (using the same predictor variables) is quite different and the AIC is smaller for the multinom approach. I guess polr has more strict premises for the structure of the response variable, which methods can be used to test for

Hi I've a problem with the following example: library(tcltk) .Tcl("array unset tclArray") myRarray <- matrix(1:1000, ncol=20) for (i in (0:49)) for (j in (0:19)) .Tcl(paste("set tclArray(",i,",",j,") ",myRarray[i+1,j+1],sep="")) tt<-tktoplevel() table1 <- tkwidget(tt,"table",variable="tclArray",