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Hi all I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle with my analysis, I have a set of binary disease outbreak data linked to a large number of landscape metrics variables and environmental variables which I would like to as predictor variables in a Least Angle Logistic Regression using the glars.fit.s function in the glars package (my data exhibits some multicollinearity hence the LARS) but when I try and load this in R (version 2.9.0) I get the following message > library(glars) Error in library(glars) : 'glars' is not a valid installed package I have the windows binary fo...

Hello list, I've been searching around trying to find whether somebody has written such a package of least angle regression on generalized linear models, like what Lasso2 package does. The extension to generalized linear models is briefly discussed in the comment by D. Madigan and G. Ridgeway. Is such a package available? Thanks, Mike [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi! When I apply the lars (least-angle-regression) method to my data (3655 features, only 355 data points, no I did not mistype), I observe a strange behaviour: 1) The beta values tend to grow into real high values quite fast up to a point where they overflow and get negative. The overflow is not a problem, I don't need the last part of the analysis anyway, but why do they just

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