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2017 Oct 05
3
working with ordinal predictor variables?
I'm trying to develop a linear model for crop productivity based on
variables published as part of the SSURGO database released by the
USDA. My default is to just run lm() with continuous predictor
variables as numeric, and discrete predictor variables as factors, but
some of the discrete variables are ordinal (e.g. drainage class, which
ranges from excessively drained to excessively poorly drained), but...
2017 Oct 05
0
working with ordinal predictor variables?
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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Alexandra Thorn <alexandra.thorn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm trying to develop a linear model for crop productivity based on
> variables published as part of the SSURGO database released by the
> USDA. My default is to just run lm() with continuous predictor
> variables as numeric, and discrete predictor variables as factors, but
> some of the discrete variables are ordinal (e.g. drainage class, which
> ranges from excessively drained to excessively p...