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Hello, I found in the forum two threads about point biserial correlation. One of them (1) mentioned "a point-biserial correlation is just a Pearson correlation where one of the variables is dichotomous. Thus, the command is just the normal cor function". The other (2) mentioned "Professor Fox's package polycor" as a way to calculate point biserial correlation?

Dear list, has anyone written a package/function in R for computing a point- biserial resp. biserial correlation? Thanks in advance Bernd

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Hello R-User! I appologise in advance if this should also go into statistics but I am presently puzzled. I have a data.frame (about 300 rows and about 80 variables) and my variables are dichotomous factors, continuous (numerical) and ordered factors. I would like to calculate the linear correlation between every pair of my variables, because I would like to perform a logistic regression (glm())

Hi I am looking for a structural equation modeling package in R which can be used for categorical data. Is anyone aware of the existence of such a package? Would appreciate any help on this. Thank you Upasna -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upasna Sharma Research Scholar Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Hello, I am running polychoric correlations on a dataset composed of 12 ordinal and binary variables (N =384), using the polycor package. One of the association (between 2 dichotomous variables) is very high using the 2-step estimate (0.933 when polychoric run only between the two variables; but 0.801 when polychoric run on the 12 variables). The same correlation run with ML estimate returns a

I am looking to fit one or more latent categorical variables to data that is a mixture of categorical and continuous variables. Factor analysis would work for continuous data, latent class analysis for categorical data. I understand that in a package such as MPlus I could perform a single analysis of both data types. Are there similar routines available in R? Stuart -----Original Message-----

Hi, we are trying to do structural equation modelling on R. However, one of our predictor variables is categorical (smoker/nonsmoker). Now, if we want to run the sem() command (from the sem library), we need to specify a covariance matrix (cov). However, Pearson's correlation does not work on the dichotomous variable, so instead we produced a covariance matrix using the Spearman's (or

Dear R-users Could anyone tell me which library contains a function to compute polycoric correlations? I wonder the same question was asked a while ago, but I could not locate the mail in the R-help archives. Sorry for bothering you. Sincerely ------------------------ Hiroto Miyoshi ???? h_m_ at po.harenet.ne.jp

I am trying to run a GLMM on some binomial data. My fixed factors include 2 dichotomous variables, day, and distance. When I run the model: modelA<-glmmPQL(Leaving~Trial*Day*Dist,random=~1|Indiv,family="binomial") I get the error: iteration 1 Error in MEEM(object, conLin, control$niterEM) : Singularity in backsolve at level 0, block 1 >From looking at previous help

Dear R-sians.. I am trying to plot boxplots with side-by-side option.. I tried some of the posted suggestions and could not make it work due to unequal sizes of categories... e.g. weekly measured water depth values are categorized into 5 levels based on their values such measurement is again categorized into dichotomous levels - based on the result of a test I would like generate boxplot of

Hi everyone, Have sample of items for each one, a set of 20 dichotomous (absent-present) variables are expressed. I'm trying to understand how to explore the co-occurence of each variable. Read some papers concerning smallest space analysis, but it does not seems implemented in any R package (and my protamming skills are =0). Non metric MDS gives error messages, probably because of the

Dear R users: I have a continuous outcome variable and four predictors, two continuous and two dichotomous. i would like to use the lattice plot to create scatter plots for the continuous predictors and boxplots for the dichotomous predictors. with 4 continuous variables, this is what i have been doing: trial = rbind ( cbind ( cimt$ant.mean, cimt$age, 1 ), cbind ( cimt$ant.mean, cimt$sbp, 2 ),

I'd like to estimate an ordinal logistic regression with a random effect for a grouping variable. I do not find a pre-packaged algorithm for this. I've found methods glmmML (package: glmmML) and lmer (package: lme4) both work fine with dichotomous dependent variables. I'd like a model similar to polr (package: MASS) or lrm (package: Design) that allows random effects. I was

Hello R people, I am looking to pay someone to help write some R code. Inputs: Study identifier: ID Number for the study, each ID number is for one study only each block set should only be used for that study. This will require that you store the results from the blocks someplace on the file system. Trait #1: dichotomous rural / urban Trait #2: dichotomous sick / healthy Assignment Ratio:

Is it possible to fit a structural equation model with link functions in R? I am trying to build a logistic-regression-like model in sem, because incorporating the dichotomous variables linearly seems inappropriate. Mplus can do something similar by specifying a 'link' parameter, but I would like to be able to do it in R, ofcourse. I have explored the 'sem' package from John Fox,

Dear People at R help, I am trying to figure out the syntax for a three-level logistic model with a single random effect (intercept): Data Collected My data consist of three levels: level 1 is four setting for each student (setting nested within student), and each student is registered in one of 14 universities (students nested within university). More detailed: A. 2,479 students who have a

Dear R users, I would like to test the randomness in a series of N values (N>=2). I know that runs.test works for dichotomous factor only: x <- rep(c(1,2), 50) runs.test(factor(x)) However it doesn't work for series that can take any N values (N>2): x <- rep(c(1,2,5,4),50) runs.test(factor(x)) Error in runs.test(factor(x)) : x does not contain dichotomous data Are there any R

Dear R users, I have a large individual-level dataset (~700,000 records) which I am performing a conditional logistic regression on. Key variables include the dichotomous outcome, dichotomous exposure, and the stratum to which each person belongs. Using this individual-level dataset I can successfully use clogit to create the model I want. However reading this large .csv file into R and running

Does anyone know how to get the C-index from a logistic model - not using the dataset that was used to train the model, but instead using a fresh dataset on the same model? I have a dataset of 400 points that I've split into two halves, one for training the logistic model, and the other for evaluating it. The structure is as follows: column headers are "got a loan" (dichotomous),