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Hi, I am trying to build a series of rlm models. I have my data frame and the models will be built using various coulmns of the data frame. Thus a series of models would be m1 <- rlm(V1 ~ V2 + V3 + V4, data) m2 <- rlm(V1 ~ V2 + V5 + V7, data) m3 <- rlm(V1 ~ V2 + V8 + V9, data) I would like to automate this. Is it possible to u...

Dear Group, I am having trouble with using rlm on multivariate data sets. When I call rlm I get Error in lm.wfit(x, y, w, method = "qr") : incompatible dimensions lm on the same data sets seem to work well (see code example). Am I doing something wrong? I have already browsed through the forums and google but could not fi...

Dear R-devel, There seems to be a discrepancy in the order in which lm and rlm evaluate their arguments. This causes rlm to sometimes produce an error where lm is just fine. Here is a little script that illustrate the issue: > library(MASS) > ## create data > n <- 100 > dat <- data.frame(x=rep(c(-1,0,1), n), y=rnorm(3*n)) > > ## call lm, works fine &...

Hello, I have a simple xyplot with rlm lines. I would like to add the a and b coefficients (y=ax+b) of the rlm calculation in each panel. I know I can do it 'outside' the xyplot command but I would like to do all at the same time. I found some posts with the same question, but no answer. Is it impossible ? Thanks in advance...

Hello, I'm trying to do a little rlm of some data that looks like this: UNIT COHORT perdo adjodds 1010 96 0.39890 1.06894 1010 97 0.48113 1.57500 1010 98 0.36328 1.21498 1010 99 0.44391 1.38608 It works fine like this: rlm(perdo ~ COHORT, psi=psisquare) But the probl...

I keep coming back to this problem of singular fits in rlm (MASS library), but cannot figure out a good solution. I am fitting a linear model with a factor variable, like lm( Y ~ factorVar) and this works fine. lm knows to construct the contrast matrix the way I would expect, which puts the first factor as the baseline level. But when I try rlm( Y ~ fact...

Dear all, When calling rlm with the following data, I get an error. (R v.1.8.1, WinXP Pro 2002 with service pack 1.) > d <- na.omit(data.frame(CPRATIO, HEIGHTZ, FAMILYID)) > c <- tapply(d$CPRATIO, d$FAMILYID, mean) > h <- tapply(d$HEIGHTZ, d$FAMILYID, mean) > c 1 2 3 6...

Hello all, I'm using R2.7.0 (on Windows 2000) and I'm trying do run a robust regression on following model structure: model = "Y ~ x1*x2 / (x3 + x4 + x5 +x6)" where x1 and x2 are both factors (either 1 or 0) and x3.....x6 are numeric. The error code I get when running rlm(as.formula(model), data=daymean) is: error in rlm.default(x, y, weights, method = method, wt.method = wt.method, : 'x' is singular: singular fits are not implemented in rlm As singular.ok = TRUE is default with lmrob from the robustbase package, I tried running the model using lmrob,...

Hi all, I am reading the MASS book but it doesn't give examples about the diagnosis and model checking for rlm... My data is highly non-Gaussian so I am using rlm instead of lm. My questions are: 0. Are goodness-of-fit and model-checking using rlm completely the same as usual regression? 1. Please give me some pointers about how to do goodness-of-fit and residual diagnosis for rlm in R? Any go...

How do I add to a trellis plot the best fit line from a robust fit? I can use panel.lm to add a least squares fit, but there is no panel.rlm function. -- Alan S Barnett <asb at mail.nih.gov> NIMH/CBDB

Hei Group, I want to compare the relative importance of predictors in a multiple linear regression y~a+bx1+cx2... However, bptest indicates heteroskedasticity of my model. I therefore perform a robust regression (rlm), in combination with bootstrapping (as outlined in J. Fox, Bootstrapping Regression Models). Now I want to compare the relative importance of my predictors. Can I rely on the output of 'relaimpo' here? (which takes 'lm', not 'rlm' objects). Thanks, Robert ------------...

...w the weights used in the IWLS process wresid a working residual, weighted for "inv.var" weights only. How to use these input arguments? Anybody please shed some light? Also, is my understanding below correct? The input argument "w" is used for the initial values of the rlm IRLS weighting and the output value "w" is the converged "w". The "weights" input argument is actually what I want to apply - if I have my own set of weights. And the real/actual weights are the product of "weights"(I supplied) and the converged output &quot...

Hi, I would appreciate of someone could explain how the residual standard error is computed for rlm models (MASS package). Usually, one would expect to get the residual standard error by > sqrt(sum((y-fitted(fm))^2)/(n-2)) where y is the response, fm a linear model with an intercept and slope for x and n the number of observations. This does not seem to work for rlm models and I am wondering...

How do we get 2-tailed p-values for the rlm summary? I'm using the following: > fit <- rlm(oatRT ~ oatoacData$erp, psi=psi.bisquare, maxit=100, na.action='na.omit') > fitsum <- summary(fit, cor=F) > print(fitsum) Call: rlm(formula = oatRT ~ oatoacData$erp, psi = psi.bisquare, maxit = 100, na.action = &...

...s wrong estimates produced by lmRob.fit.compute() for nested factors when using the correct contrast matrix. And in these respects, I have found that S-Plus behaves the same way as R. Using the three available contrast types (sum, treatment, helmert) with lm() or lm.fit(), but just contr.sum with rlm() and lmRob(), and small examples, I generated contrast matrices for four models involving nested factors with fixed effects. For three of the models the matrices were incorrect. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Details --------- For lm() and rlm() I used two data...

Dear List, I used rlm to calculate two regression models for two data sets (rlm due to two outlying values in one of the data sets). Now I want to compare the two regression slopes. I came across some R-code of Spencer Graves in reply to a similar problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch/msg06...

...snapshots which include how R was called from the command line, and the result of version at the R prompt. I have attached the .r file, and the data file and the output snapshots. Below also find everything except only a few lines of the data file. Note that it seems to work for lm() but not for rlm(). Not that it matters for our purposes, but the same program(except for modifying read.csv()) runs without error under Splus Version 6.2.1on Linux 2.4.18. Thanks for looking at this. Of course let me know if I can provide any other information. Frank Hansen 312-264-2043 -------- here is a cu...

R 2.0.1 Linux I am using rlm() to fit a model, e.g. fit1<-rlm(y~x). My model is more complex than the one shown. When I enter summary(fit1) I get estimates for the model's coefficients along with their SEs, and t values, but no p values. The p value column is blank. Similarly, when I enter anova(fit1) I get DF, Sum S...

I am absolutely new to R and I am aware of only a few basic command lines. I was running a robust regression in R, using the following command line library (MASS) rfmodel2 <- rlm (TotalEmployment_2005 ~ ALABAMA + MISSISSIPPI + LOUISIANA + TotalEmployment_2000 + PCWhitePop_2005 + UnemploymentRate_2005 + PCUrbanPop2000 + PCPeopleWithACollegeDegree_2000 + PCPopulation.of.or.over.65.years.of.age_2005) summary (rfmodel2) But, it keeps giving me an error message as soon as I try...

Can anyone comment or point me to a discussion of the pros and cons of robust regressions, vs. a more "manual" approach to trimming outliers and/or "normalizing" data used in regression analysis?