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I am using RW 1.2.3. on an IBM PC 300GL. Using the data bp.dat which accompanies Helen Brown and Robin Prescott 1999 Applied Mixed Models in Medicine. Statistics in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, USA which is also found at www.med.ed.ac.uk/phs/mixed. The data file was opened and initialized with > dat <- read.table("bp.dat") >

Hi, perhaps this is a stupid question, but i need some help about Helmert contrasts in the Cox model. I have a survival data frame with an unordered factor `group' with levels 0 ... 5. Calculating the Cox model with Helmert contrasts, i expected that the first coefficient would be the same as if i had used treatment contrasts, but this is not true. I this a error in reasoning, or is it

Hi, I found that using different contrasts (e.g. contr.helmert vs. contr.treatment) will generate different fitted probabilities from multinomial logistic regression using multinom(); while the fitted probabilities from binary logistic regression seem to be the same. Why is that? and for multinomial logisitc regression, what contrast should be used? I guess it's helmert? here is an example

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Hi all, I am trying to do a ordered probit regression using polr(), replicating a result from SAS. >polr(y ~ x, dat, method='probit') suppose the model is y ~ x, where y is a factor with 3 levels and x is a factor with 5 levels, To get coefficients, SAS by default use the last level as reference, R by default use the first level (correct me if I was wrong), The result I got is a

Code: > options("contrasts") $contrasts factor ordered "contr.treatment" "contr.poly" I want to change the first entry ONLY, without retyping "contr.poly". How do I do it? I have tried various possibilities and cannot get anything to work. I found out that the response to options("contrasts") has class

Hi, I need to build a function to generate one column for each level of a factor in the model matrix created on an arbitrary formula (instead of using the available contrasts options such as contr.treatment, contr.SAS, etc). My approach to this was first to use the built-in function for contr.treatment but changing the default value of the contrasts argument to FALSE (I named this function

useRs, A no doubt simple question, but I am baffled. Indeed, I think I once knew the answer, but can't recover it. The default contrasts for aov (and lm, and...) are contr.treatment and contr.poly for unordered and ordered factors, respectively. But, how does one invoke the latter? That is, in a data.frame, how does one indicate that a factor is an *ordered* factor such that

Hola compañeros de la lista, qué tal. Los molesto con la siguiente duda: Tengo un experimento con dos factores A y B, cada uno de los cuales tiene los siguientes niveles (que son concentraciones de dos hormonas vegetales aplicadas a plantas): niveles del factor A: 0, 0.2, 0.5, 1 niveles del factor B: 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1 y mi variable de respuesta es continua, todo dentro del set de datos

Dear R-users, I want to fit a linear model with Y as response variable and X a categorical variable (with 4 categories), with the aim of comparing the basal category of X (category=1) with category 4. Unfortunately, there is another categorical variable with 2 categories which interact with x and I have to include it, so my model is s "reg3: Y=x*x3". Using fit.contrast to make the

Hello, I've noticed that all contrast functions, like contr.treatment, contr.poly, etc., take a logical argument called 'contrasts'. The default is TRUE, in which case they do their normal thing of returning a n x n-1 matrix whose columns are linearly-independent of the intercept. If contrasts=FALSE, they instead return an n x n matrix with full rank (usually the identity matrix,

In S-Plus, I can obtain polynomial contrasts for an ordered factor with contr.poly(). The function also exists in R, however is limited to factors where the levels are equally spaced. In S-Plus, one can obtain the contrasts for a set of numeric values representing unequally spaced ordered factors. Has anyone implemented this in R? I see that the S-Plus function calls another function (poly.raw())

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.

Hi everybody, I'm trying to construct contrasts for an ANOVA to determine if there is a significant trend in the means of my groups. In the following example, based on the type of 2x3 ANOVA I'm trying to perform, does the linear polynomial contrast generated by contr.poly allow me to test for a linear trend across groups? doi=data.frame( Group=c( rep(1, 5), rep(2, 5), rep(3, 5),

Hello, I've got what I'd expect to be a pretty simple issue: I fit an aov object using multiple error strata, and would like some significance tests for the contrasts I specified. In this contrived example, I model some test score as the interaction of a subject's gender and two emotion variables (angry, happy, neutral), measured at entry to the experiment (entry) and later

#I am trying to understand how R fits models for contrasts in a #simple one-way anova. This is an example, I am not stupid enough to want #to simultaneously apply all of these contrasts to real data. With a few #exceptions, the tests that I would compute by hand (or by other software) #will give the same t or F statistics. It is the contrast estimates that R produces #that I can't seem to

the study design of the data I have to analyse is simple. There is 1 control group (CTRL) and 2 different treatment groups (TREAT_1 and TREAT_2). The data also includes 2 covariates COV1 and COV2. I have been asked to check if there is a linear or quadratic treatment effect in the data. I created a dummy data set to explain my situation: df1 <- data.frame( Observation =

Tian It appears the attachment might not have worked so I'll embed Bill's message at the end. Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Peter Alspach > Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 8:02 a.m. > To: T Mu; R-Help > Subject: Re: [R] confusing about contrasts concept

Dear all, I'm working with Cox-regression, because data could be censored. But in this particular case not. Now I have a simple example: PRO and PRE are (0,1) coded. The response is not normal distributed. We are interested in a model which could describe interaction. But my results are depending strongly in the choose of the contrast option. It is clear that there is some dependence in

Hello all R-helpers, I've performed an experiment to test for differential effects of elevated temperatures on three different groups of corals. I'm currently performing a cox proportional hazards regression with censoring on the survivorship (days to mortality) of each individual in the experiment with two factors: Temperature Treatment (2 levels: ambient and elevated) and