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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 find any related discussions. I use Windows XP and R

Hi, In the help files in the ?mgcv package for the gam.control() function, there is an option irls.reg. The help files describe this option as: For most models this should be 0. The iteratively re-weighted least squares method by which GAMs are fitted can fail to converge in some circumstances. For example, data with many zeroes can cause problems in a model with a log link, because a mean of

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 ~ factorVar) I get the message "'x'

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 7 9 10 11 6.000000 2.500000 3.250000

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 > summary(lm(y ~

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 for your help. Ptit Bleu. x11(15,12) xyplot(df1$col2 ~

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 use a string in place of the formula? I tried doing: fmla

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

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 =

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

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 problem is that I have about 100 UNITs, and I want to do a

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 = "na.omit") Residuals: Min 1Q Median

This message also reports 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

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

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 Sq, Mean Sq, but the column for F value and Pr(>F) are blank. Any

Dear r-bugs, I looked over the FAQ. Hope I'm reporting this correctly. I ran this on both solaris and windows. I've provided terminal 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

Hi, I'm trying to use Robust non-linear regression to fit dose response curves. Maybe I didnt look good enough, but I dind't find robust methods for NON linear regression implemented in R. A method that looked good to me but is unfortunately not (yet) implemented in R is described in http://www.graphpad.com/articles/RobustNonlinearRegression_files/frame.htm

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 +

hi guys and gals ... How are you all ... i have to do something in robust regression by R programm , and i have some problems as following: *the first :* suppose w(r) =1/(1 r^2) and r <- c(7.01,2.07,7.061,5.607,8.502,54.909,12.222) and i want to exclude some values from r so that (abs(r)>4.9 )... after ,i want to used (w) to get on coefficients beta0 and beta1 (B1 <-

We have a choice when calculating the Huber location estimate: > set.seed(221205) > y <- 7 + 3*rt(30,1) > library(MASS) > huber(y)$mu [1] 5.9117 > coefficients(rlm(y~1)) (Intercept) 5.9204 I was surprised to get two different results. The function huber() works directly with the definition whereas rlm() uses iteratively reweighted least squares. My surprise is