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Dear R-users, I am trying to modify the mfp() function in the mfp package to model Weibull survival using fractional polynomials approach. However, I keep getting into trouble when mfp.fit and other "hidden" functions can't be found. I did find some of them in Splus but it's getting nowhere. I wonder if any of you can give me some tips on how to modify it or any experience

Dear All, I have analysed time to event data for continuous variables by considering the multivariable fractional polynomial (MFP) model and comparing this to the untransformed and log transformed model to determine which transformation, if any, is best. This was possible as the Cox model was the underlying model. However, I am now at the situation where the assumption that the competing risks

Dear R users, The package 'mfp' that fits fractional polynomial terms to predictors. Example: data(GBSG) f <- mfp(Surv(rfst, cens) ~ fp(age, df = 4, select = 0.05) + fp(prm, df = 4, select = 0.05), family = cox, data = GBSG) print(f) To describe the association between the original predictor, eg. age and risk for different values of age I can plot it the polynomials

Dear Developers, The pnbeta function has been reviewed recently in the article of A. Baharev, S. Kem?ny, On the computation of the noncentral F and noncentral beta distribution, Statistics and Computing, 2008, in press. Preprint of the paper is available here: http://reliablecomputing.eu/publications.html and the article here http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11222-008-9061-3 I suggest increasing

Dear Developers, The pnbeta function has been reviewed recently in the article of A. Baharev, S. Kem=E9ny, On the computation of the noncentral F and noncentral beta distribution, Statistics and Computing, 2008, in press. Preprint of the paper is available here: http://reliablecomputing.eu/publications.html and the article here http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11222-008-9061-3 I suggest increasing

Dear list, This is quite a specific question requiring the package orthopolynom. This package provides a nice implementation of the Legendre polynomials, however I need the associated Legendre polynomial which can be readily expressed in terms of the mth order derivative of the corresponding Legendre polynomial. (For the curious, I'm trying to calculate spherical harmonics [*]).

Good Evening, I would like to work with multivariate polynomials (x and y variables). I know that there is a package called multipol but I am not sure that supports my needs. I use a function (in reality legendre.polynomials) which creates me the polynomials I want. For example the following returns > legendre.polynomials(2)[[2]] x (first order polynomial) I would like to calculate the

Hi Folks! Im using the function poly to generate orthogonal polynomials, but Id like to see the actual polynomials so that I could convert it to a polynomial in my original variable. Is that possible and if so how do I do it? /E

Dear All, I have found in the poly help this sentence: The orthogonal polynomial is summarized by the coefficients, which can be used to evaluate it via the three-term recursion given in Kennedy & Gentle (1980, pp. 343–4), and used in the predict part of the code. My question: which type of orthogonal polynomials are used by this function? Hrmite, legendre.. TIA Giovanni [[alternative HTML

Hello everyone, I would like to find out if there are already implemented function for legendre polynomials. I tried google but returns nothing. How do you suggest me to search for that? Regards Alex [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Have you ever worked in R with bivariate polynomials? How did you implement simple operators like addition/multiplication? I found a package called multipol that seems to support these kinds of operators but I do keep receiving error. Check for example the following snippet of code (you can copy & paste) require('orthopolynom') require('polynom') require('multipol')

Dear All, Need some help in polynomials transformation to get the coefficients. I have tried "poly.transform" as applied in S-plus but it does not work. Thanks in advanced for any helps. Regards. Abd. Rahman Kassim (PhD) Head Forest Ecology Branch Forest Management & Ecology Program Forestry and Conservation Division Forest Research Institute Malaysia Kepong 52109 Selangor,

This very likely falls in the category of an unexpected result due to user ignorance. I generated the following data: time <- 0:10 set.seed(4302007) y <- 268 + -9*time + .4*(time^2) + rnorm(11, 0, .1) I then fit models using both orthogonal and raw polynomials: fit1 <- lm(y ~ poly(time, 2)) fit2 <- lm(y ~ poly(time, degree=2, raw=TRUE)) > predict(fit1, data.frame(time =

Hi I can do this: formula = as.factor(outcome) ~ . in glm and other model building functions. I think there is a way to get the product of the determinants (that is d1 * d2, d1 * d3, etc) and also another way to get all the polynomials (that is like poly(d1,2) would produce for a single determinant). Can anyone tell me how you write them? Stephen [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

We are interested in obtaining an efficient function that for a given vector of length t will output a vector of length t+1 that contains the associated values of the elementary symmetric polynomials in t variables. Below is what we have at the moment, but it is a little slow for our needs. Any suggestions? Thanks ahead of time for any help you can offer, Austin H. Jones Department of

Folks, I'm doing fine with using orthogonal polynomials in a regression context: # We will deal with noisy data from the d.g.p. y = sin(x) + e x <- seq(0, 3.141592654, length.out=20) y <- sin(x) + 0.1*rnorm(10) d <- lm(y ~ poly(x, 4)) plot(x, y, type="l"); lines(x, d$fitted.values, col="blue") # Fits great! all.equal(as.numeric(d$coefficients[1] + m

Looking to the wonderful statistical advice that this group can offer. In behavioral science applications of stats, we are often introduced to coefficients for orthogonal polynomials that are nice integers. For instance, Kirk's experimental design book presents the following coefficients for p=4: Linear -3 -1 1 3 Quadratic 1 -1 -1 1 Cubic -1 3 -3 1 In R orthogonal

As usual, the R newsgroup set me straight (thanks to Douglas Bates, Robert Balshaw and Albyn Jones). There is really no difference between using orthogonal polynomials of the form: Linear -3 -1 1 3 Quadratic 1 -1 -1 1 Cubic -1 3 -3 1 Versus > poly(c(1:4),3) 1 2 3 [1,] -0.6708204 0.5 -0.2236068 [2,] -0.2236068 -0.5 0.6708204 [3,] 0.2236068

Hi: I am using the package "KernSmooth" to do the local polynomial regression. However, it seems the function "locpoly" can only deal with univariate covaraite. I wonder is there any kernel smoothing package in R can deal with bivariate covariates? I also checked the package "lcofit" in which function "lcofit" can indeed deal with bivariate case. The

How can ordinary polynomial coefficients be calculated from an orthogonal polynomial fit? I'm trying to do something like find a,b,c,d from lm(billions ~ a+b*decade+c*decade^2+d*decade^3) but that gives: "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : Object "a" not found" > decade <- c(1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990) > billions <- c(3.5, 5, 7.5, 13, 40) > #