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I'm running polr() and getting warning messages from glm.fit(). It seems reasonable to use glm.control() to turn on the trace and follow what glm.fit() does when called by polr(); or is it? glm.control(maxit=10, trace=TRUE) polr(act~., data=mm) The glm.control() sets the trace TRUE, but there's no change in the output from polr(). Many thanks in advance for any help/pointers.

I have used plor() to model a rather large 3-category dataset (~1500 data points, ~15 independent variables); from the resulting model (with a deviance slightly below the residual degrees of freedom), the training data are placed in only the two extreme categories. Though the result appears to indicate that there's only a relative 'narrow' bin for the medium group, [and when the

With the incorporation of the useful hints, my user function now looks like this: userfn <- function() { ... ow <- options("warn") options(warn = 2); ... reg<-try(polr(act~.,data=mm,Hess=TRUE)) ... sumreg<-try(summary(reg)) print(length(sumreg)) print(sumreg) ... options(ow) # reset } The routine userfn() is called multiple times, two of which I happen to know to

Within an user function, how are the warnings from an R function be trapped (such that some proper actions can be taken)? 'last.warning' is returned only at the top level. Pointers are appreciated. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info",

I am running a windows executable, using wine, in a 'batch mode' - ie multiple times with different command parameters to the executable. For some parameters, the 'Program Error' dialog box appears and the wine process does not continue until the dialog box is closed. Is it possible to suppress the dialog box such that the entire batch can be completed without intervention?

For R-1.4.0, I have been able to build R.bin with -O2 flag. This however did not yield any significant speed-up for my code. I then tried building the binary for 64 bit, but had not been able to configure the build; none of the suggestions that I can find in the r-help search worked for me. I'm looking for any other suggestions -- TIA mod:>> uname -a IRIX64 mod 6.5 10100655 IP35

Dear community, I am currently trying to fit an ordinal logistic regression model with the polr function. I often get the same error message : "attempt to find suitable starting values failed", for example with : require(MASS) data(iris) polr(Species~Sepal.Length+Sepal.Width+Petal.Length+Petal.Width,iris) (I know the response variable Species should be nominal but I do as levels

Hi, I'm getting an error message using polr(): Error in optim(start, fmin, gmin, method = "BFGS", hessian = Hess, ...) : initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite The outcome variable is ordinal and factored, and the independant variable is continuous. I've checked the source code for both polr() and optim() and can't find any variable called

Dear all, I have used polr in MASS but I am uncertain about the summary(polr.object) interpretation and would be happy for help on that. This is my summary: > summary(shade.polr) Re-fitting to get Hessian Call: polr(formula = as.ordered(shade) ~ as.factor(objekt), data = sof, weights = as.numeric(frek)) Coefficients: Value Std. Error t value 2.1699520 0.3681840 5.8936612

I am new to R, ordered logistic regression, and polr. The "Examples" section at the bottom of the help page for polr<http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/MASS/html/polr.html>(that fits a logistic or probit regression model to an ordered factor response) shows options(contrasts = c("contr.treatment", "contr.poly")) house.plr <- polr(Sat ~ Infl +

Dear all, I've replicated the cheese tasting example on p175 of GLM's by McCullagh and Nelder. This is a 4 treatment (rows) by 9 ordinal response (cols) table. Here's my simple code: #### cheese library(MASS) options(contrasts = c("contr.treatment", "contr.poly")) y = c(0,0, 1, 7, 8,8,19, 8,1, 6,9,12,11, 7,6, 1, 0,0, 1,1, 6, 8,23,7,

Hi (1)In polr(), is there any way to calculate a pseudo analogue to the R^2. Just for use as a purely descriptive statistic of the goodness of fit? (2) And: what are the assumptions which must be fulfilled, so that the results of polr() (t-values, etc.) are valid? How can I test these prerequisites most easily: I have a three-level (ordered factor) response and four metric variables. many

Dear Sir, I get an error message when I use polr() in MASS package. My data is "ord.dat". I made "y" a factor. y y1 y2 x lx 1 0 0 0 3.2e-02 -1.49485 2 0 0 0 3.2e-02 -1.49485 3 0 0 0 1.0e-01 -1.00000 4 0 0 0 1.0e-01 -1.00000 5 0 0 0 3.2e-01 -0.49485 6 0 0 0 3.2e-01 -0.49485 7 1 1 0 1.0e+00 0.00000 8 0 0 0 1.0e+00 0.00000 9 1 1 0

Hi all, I have a problem to estimate Std. Error and t-value by ?polr? in library Mass. They result from the summary of a polr object. I can obtain them working in the R environment with the following statements: temp <- polr(formula = formula1, data = data1) coeff <- summary(temp), but when the above statements are enclosed in a function, summary reports the following error:

Hi - I am using polr. I can get a result from polr fit by calling result.plr <- polr(formula, data=mydata, method="probit"); However, from the 'result.plr', how can I access standard error of the estimated coefficients as well as the t statistics for each one of them? What I would like to do ultimately is to see which coefficients are not significant and try to refit the

Hello I am running R 1.8.1 on a Windows platform I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley. But when I try model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex) + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data = duhray) I get a message

In polr.R the (several) functions gmin and fmin contain the code > theta <- beta[pc + 1L:q] > gamm <- c(-100, cumsum(c(theta[1L], exp(theta[-1L]))), 100) That's bad. There's no reason to suppose beta[pc+1L] is larger than -100 or that the cumulative sum is smaller than 100. For practical datasets those assumptions are frequently violated, causing the

Dear friends. Do Polr in Mass change the sign of the coefficients ? Example (McCullagh 1980) options(contrasts=c("contr.treatment","contr.poly")) library(Mass) freq <- c(19,29,24,497,560,269) yy <- ordered(gl(3,1,6)) z4 <- polr(yy~x,weights=freq) > z4 Call: polr(formula = yy ~ x, weights = freq) Coefficients: x2 -0.6026492 Intercepts: 1|2

Hello, I am trying to run an ordinal logistic regression (polr) using the package 'MASS'. I have successfully run other regression classes (glm, multinom) without much problem, but with the 'polr' class I get the following error: " Error in svd(X) : infinite or missing values in 'x' " which appears when I run the "summary" command. The data file is

Greetings: I'm running R-1.9.1 on Fedora Core 2 Linux. I tested a proportional odds logistic regression with MASS's polr and Design's lrm. Parameter estimates between the 2 are consistent, but the standard errors are quite different, and the conclusions from the t and Wald tests are dramatically different. I cranked the "abstol" argument up quite a bit in the polr