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Dear All, Can the x matrix in the glmnet() function of glmnet package be a data.frame with numeric columns and factor columns? I am asking this because I have a model with both numeric and categorical predictors, which I would like to study with glmnet. I have already tried to use a data.frame, but with no success -- as far as I know, the matrix object can only have data of a single type. Is

Hi, I am trying to do logistic regression for data of 104 patients, which have one outcome (yes or no) and 15 variables (9 categorical factors [yes or no] and 6 continuous variables). Number of yes outcome is 25. Twenty-five events and 15 variables mean events per variable is much less than 10. Therefore, I tried to analyze the data with penalized regression method. I would like please some of the

Dear R users: Recently, I learn to use penalized logistic regression. Two packages (penalized and glmnet) have the function of lasso. So I write these code. However, I got different results of coef. Can someone kindly explain. # lasso using penalized library(penalized) pena.fit2<-penalized(HRLNM,penalized=~CN+NoSus,lambda1=1,model="logistic",standardize=TRUE) pena.fit2

The following R code using different packages gives the same results for a simple logistic regression without regularization, but different results with regularization. This may just be a matter of different scaling of the regularization parameters, but if anyone familiar with these packages has insight into why the results differ, I'd appreciate hearing about it. I'm new to

Dear List, I'm running simulations using the glmnet package. I need to use an 'automated' method for model selection at each iteration of the simulation. The cv.glmnet function in the same package is handy for that purpose. However, in my simulation I have p >> N, and in some cases the selected model from cv.glmet is essentially shrinking all coefficients to zero. In this case,

Hi all. Sorry for the long email. I have been trying to find someone local to work on this with me, without much luck. I went in to our local stats consulting service here, and the guy there told me that I already know more about model selection than he does. :-< He pointed me towards another professor that can perhaps help, but that prof is busy until mid-June, so I want to get as much

Hi Everybody! I must start with a declaration that I am a sparse user of R. I am creating a credit scorecard using a dataset which has a variable depicting actual credit history (good/bad) and 41 other variables of yes/no type. The procedure I am asked to follow is to use a penalized logistic procedure for variable selection. I have located the package "glmnet" which gives the complete

Hello list. For some reason, the makers of glmnet do not accept a dataframe as input. They expect the input to be a matrix, where the dummies are already precoded. Now I have created a sample dataset with . 11 factor columns with two levels . 4 factor columns with three levels . 135 continuous columns (from a standard normal) . 100 observations (rows) Say this dataframe is in dfrPredictors. What

Hi, I am attempting to evaluate the prediction error of a coxph model that was built after feature selection with glmnet. In the preprocessing stage I used na.omit (dataset) to remove NAs. I reconstructed all my factor variables into binary variables with dummies (using model.matrix) I then used glmnet lasso to fit a cox model and select the best performing features. Then I fit a coxph model

Dear All, I want to generate survival curve with cox model but I want to estimate the coefficients using glmnet. However, I also want to include a strata() term in the model. Could anyone please tell me how to have this strata() effect in the model in glmnet? I tried converting a formula with strata() to a design matrix and feeding to glmnet, but glmnet just treats the strata() term with one

Hello fellow R users, I have been getting a strange error message when using the cv.glmnet function in the glmnet package. I am attempting to fit a multinomial regression using the lasso. covars is a matrix with 80 rows and roughly 4000 columns, all the covariates are binary. resp is an eight level factor. I can fit the model with no errors but when I try to cross-validate after about 30 seconds

Hi, I am trying to do multinomial regression using the glmnet package, but the following gives me an error (for no reason apparent to me): library(glmnet) cv.glmnet(x=matrix(c(1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6), nrow=6),y=as.factor(c(1,2,1,2,3,3)),family='multinomial',alpha=0.5, nfolds=2) The error i get is: Error in if (outlist$msg != "Unknown error") return(outlist) : argument is of

Hi, I was trying to install package glmnet in R, but failed and it show such messages: * Installing *source* package glmnet ... This package has only been tested with gfortran. So some checks are needed. R_HOME is /home/username/R/R-2.9.0 Attempting to determine R_ARCH... R_ARCH is Attempting to detect how R was configured for Fortran 90.... Unsupported Fortran 90 compiler or Fortran 90

Hello, I got an error message saying Error in lognet(x, is.sparse, ix, jx, y, weights, offset, alpha, nobs, : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 5) when I try to analysis a binary trait using glmnet(R) by running the following code library(glmnet) Xori <- read.table("c:\\SNP.txt", sep='\t'); Yori <- read.table("c:\\Trait.txt", sep=',');

Hello all, I am having trouble with the glmnet package. I used it for the first time last week, after updating R to the current version (2.10.1, running in Windows XP). It seemed to be working fine as I explored what it could do with one of my datasets. A day or two later, using the exact same dataset, it suddenly stopped working. I get the following error every time I try to use glmnet with

Hi all, I am using the glmnet R package to run LASSO with binary logistic regression. I have over 290 samples with outcome data (0 for alive, 1 for dead) and over 230 predictor variables. I currently using LASSO to reduce the number of predictor variables. I am using the cv.glmnet function to do 10-fold cross validation on a sequence of lambda values which I let glmnet determine. I then take

Hi there, I am trying to use predict() with an object returned by cv.glmnet(), and get the following error: no applicable method for 'predict' applied to an object of class "cv.glmnet" What's wrong? my code: x=matrix(rnorm(100*20),100,20) y=rnorm(100) cv.fit=cv.glmnet(x,y) predict(cv.fit,newx=x[1:5,]) coef(cv.fit) Thanks so much, Asaf -- View this message in context:

dear all, It appears that glmnet(), when "selecting" the covariates entering the model, skips from K covariates, say, to K+2 or K+3. Thus 2 or 3 variables are "added" at the same time and it is not possible to obtain a ranking of the covariates according to their importance in the model. On the other hand lars() "adds" the covariates one at a time. My question

Dear All, ? I have found differences between glmnet versions 1.7 and 1.7.1 which, in my opinion, are not cosmetic and do not appear in the ChangeLog. If I am not mistaken, glmnet appears to return different number of selected input variables, i.e. nonzeroCoef(fit$beta[[1]]) differes between versions. The code below is the same for 1.7.1 and 1.7, but you can see that outputs differ. I would

Hi All,  I have been trying to use glmnet package to do LASSO linear regression. my x data is a matrix n_row by n_col and y is a vector of size n_row corresponding to the vector data. The number of n_col is much more larger than the number of n_row. I do the following: fits = glmnet(x, y, family="multinomial")I have been following this