On 16.11.2012 16:05, Catarina Maia wrote:> Hello,
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> I am using the mda package and in particular the fda routine to classify in
> term of gear a set of 20 trips.
> I preformed a flexible discriminant analysis (FDA) using a set of 151
> trips.
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> FDAT1 <- fda(as.factor(gear) ~ . , data =matrizR)
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> A total of 22 predictors were considered. 20 of the predictors are
> "numeric" and 2 are "factors/discrete".
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> The resulting FDA rule was applied to the 20 trips and for the same
> predictors in order to predict the type of gear used. however a consistent
> error is occuring:
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> Error in polybasis(newdata, degree, monomial) %*% object$coef :
> non-conformable arguments
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> it is possible the problem being related with the 2 predictors that are
> discrete variables?
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> there is already available some rotine to perform a discrete discriminant
> analysis considering continuous and discrete variables?
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> if someone can help, would be very grateful.
Probably not even the author of that function could easily help without
a reproducible example - the posting guide for this list asks you to
provide one.
Uwe Ligges
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> cheers,
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> Catarina
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