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I have a variable which is roughly age categories in decades. In the original data, it came in coded: > str(xxx) 'data.frame': 58271 obs. of 29 variables: $ issuecat : Factor w/ 5 levels "0 - 39","40 - 49",..: 1 1 1 1... snip I then defined issuecat as ordered: > xxx$issuecat<-as.ordered(xxx$issuecat) When I include issuecat in a glm model, the result makes me think I have asked R for a linear+quadratic+cubic+quartic polynomial f...