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Dear all, I do not seem to grasp how contrasts are set for ordered factors. Perhaps someone can elighten me? When I work with ordered factors, I would often like to be able to reduce the used polynomial to a simpler one (where possible). Thus, I would like to explicetly code the polynomial but ideally, the intial model (thus, the full polynomial) would be identical to one with an ordered factor. Here is a toy example with an explanatory variable (EV) with three distinct values (1 to 3) and a continuous response variable (RV): options (contrasts= c ('contr.tr...

Hi all Just a query from a fellow tech who's playing with Samba. He just asked me the following question, it's something I've never really thought of, but on the face of it could be worth further investigation. Any thoughts?? TIA <snip> Was doing some research last night on high availablilty - led me to a thought which I have seen around before but decided it was not

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