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For ordered factor the natural contrast coding would be to parametrize by the succsessive differences between levels, which does not assume equal spacing of factor levels as does the polynomial contrasts (implicitly at least). This requires the contr.cum, which could be: contr.cum <- function (n, contrasts = TRUE) { if (is.numeric(n) && length(n) == 1) levs <- 1:n

Dear R, Short verse of the question: Is there R code which will calculate surrogate splits and/or delta impurity for decision trees at each node? Long Version: I have local, legacy code which I use to calculate my decision trees. I would like to switch to R, but as I understand it surrogate splits are not implemented. Surrogate splits and feature ranking are described in Breiman et al

R helpers, I am working with the R program performing multivariate regression trees (MRT). I have a matrix with species and environmental variables saved as a CSV file (sprot_matrix.csv), I have 42 species and 8 environmental variables (SECCHI+PH+TA+PTOT+NTOT+CHLA+AREA+ MEANDEP) for 104 samples Title SpA SpB SpC SpD Varible1 Variable2 Variable3 Sample1 Sample 2

Dear R-help, I would like to compute the variance for the proportion of treatment effect by a surrogate in a survival model (Lin, Fleming, and De Gruttola 1997 in Statistics in Medicine). The paper mentioned that the covariance matrix matches that of the covariance matrix estimator for the marginal hazard modelling of multiple events data (Wei, Lin, and Weissfeld 1989 JASA), and is implemented

I have a question on generating multivariate time series surrogates using the "surrogates" function in the RTisean library. The surrogate data matrices are always much shorter than the input matrices. FYI, I'm using R version 2.12.2 on Windows XP RTisean library v 3.0.14 Tisean algorithms v 3.0.13 Creating a surrogate univariate time series returns a time series with the