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Christoph Lehman had problems with seperated data in two-class logistic regression. One useful little trick is to penalize the logistic regression using a quadratic penalty on the coefficients. I am sure there are functions in the R contributed libraries to do this; otherwise it is easy to achieve via IRLS using ridge regressions. Then even though the data are separated, the penalized

Dear all, I've now spent a couple of days trying to learn R and, in particular, the gam() function, and I now have a few questions and reflections regarding the latter. Maybe these things are implemented in some way that I'm not yet aware of or have perhaps been decided by the R community to not be what's wanted. Of course, my lack of complete theoretical understanding of what

Hello R-user I want to compute a multiple regression but I would to include a check for collinearity of the variables. Therefore I would like to use a ridge regression. I tried lm.ridge() but I don't know yet how to get p-values (single Pr() and p of the whole model) out of this model. Can anybody tell me how to get a similar output like the summary(lm(...)) output? Or if there is

We are using GAM in mgcv (Wood), relatively new users, and wonder if anyone can advise us on a problem we are encountering as we analyze many short time series datasets. For each dataset, we have four models, each with intercept, predictor x (trend), z (treatment), and int (interaction between x and z). Our models are Model 1: gama1.1 <- gam(y~x+z+int, family=quasipoisson) ##no smooths Model

hello, I am looking for a step() function for GAM's. In the book Statistical Computing by Crawley and a removal of predictors has been done "by hand" model <- gam(y ~s(x1) +s(x2) + s(x3)) summary(model) model2 <- gam(y ~s(x2) + s(x3)) # removal of the unsignificant variable #then comparing these two models if an significant increase occurs. anova(model, model2,

Hi, I'm running gam (mgcv version 1.3-29) and glm (logit) (stats R 2.61) on the same models/data, and I got error messages for the gam() model and warnings for the glm() model. R-help suggested that the glm() warning messages are due to the model perfectly predicting binary output. Perhaps the model overfits the data? I inspected my data and it was not immediately obvious to me (though I

Dear, I am trying to get a prediction of my GAM on a response type. So that I eventually get plots with the correct values on my ylab. I have been able to get some of my GAM's working with the example shown below: * model1<-gam(nsdall ~ s(jdaylitr2), data=datansd) newd1 <- data.frame(jdaylitr2=(244:304)) pred1 <- predict.gam(model1,newd1,type="response")* The problem I am

Hello, I'd like to understand 'what' is predicting the response for library(mgcv) gam? For example: library(mgcv) fit <- gam(y~s(x),data=as.data.frame(l_yx),family=binomial) xx <- seq(min(l_yx[,2]),max(l_yx[,2]),len=101) plot(xx,predict(fit,data.frame(x=xx),type="response"),type="l") I want to see the generalized function(s) used to predict the response

Hello! Can anyone give a tip how to plot parametric effects in an Generalized Additive Model, from mgcv package? Thanks, PM

Dear Users, I try to calculate condition indexes and variance decomposition proportions in order to test for collinearity using colldiag() in perturb package, I got a large index and two variables with large variance decomposition proportions,but one of them is constant item.I also checked the VIF for that variable, the value is small.The result is as follows: Index intercept V1

Is there a colinearty function implemented in R? I have tried help.search("colinearity") and help.search("collinearity") and have searched for "colinearity" and "collinearity" on http://www.rpad.org/Rpad/Rpad-refcard.pdf but with no success. Many thanks in advance, Peter Lauren.

I'm writing a program to perform linear regressions to estimate the number of bank teller transactions per hour of various types based upon day of week, time of day, week of month and several prices. I've got about 25,000 records in my dataset, 85 columns of transaction counts (used 1 at a time), about 50 columns of binary indicators (day, week, pay period, hour, branch), and a half dozen

Hi i need to create a model from 250 + variables with high collinearity, and only 17 data points (p = 250, n = 750). I would prefer to use Cp, AIC, and/or BIC to narrow down the number of variables, and then use VIF to choose a model without collinearity (if possible). I realize that having a huge p and small n is going to give me extreme linear dependency problems, but I *think* these model

Has anyone programmed condition indexes in R? I know that there is a function for variance inflation factors available in the car package; however, Belsley (1991) Conditioning Diagnostics (Wiley) notes that there are several weaknesses of VIFs: e.g. 1) High VIFs are sufficient but not necessary conditions for collinearity 2) VIFs don't diagnose the number of collinearities and 3) No one has

I have a linear model y~x1+x2 of some data where the coefficient for x1 is higher than I would have expected from theory (0.7 vs 0.88) I wondered whether this would be an artifact due to x1 and x2 being correlated despite that the variance inflation factor is not too high (1.065): I used perturbation analysis to evaluate collinearity library(perturb)

Dear R experts, I'm hoping someone can help me to interpret the results of building gam's with mgcv in R. Below are summaries of two gam's based on the same dataset. The first gam (named "gam.mod") has six predictor variables. The second gam (named "gam.mod2") is exactly the same except it is missing one of the predictor variables. What is confusing me is

Dear all, How can I test for collinearity in the predictor data set for multiple linear regression. Thanks Alex [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am new to R. I'm using the function GAM and wanted to get standard errors and p-values for the parametric terms (I fitted a semi-parametric models). Using the function anova() on the object from GAM, I only get p-values for the nonparametric terms. Does anyone know if and how to get standard errors for the parametric terms? Thanks. Jean G. Orelien

Recently I was using GAM and couldn't help noticing the following incoherence in prediction: > data(gam.data) > data(gam.newdata) > gam.object <- gam(y ~ s(x,6) + z, data=gam.data) > predict(gam.object)[1] 1 0.8017407 > predict(gam.object,data.frame(x=gam.data$x[1],z=gam.data$z[1])) 1 0.1668452 I would expect that using two types of predict arguments

Qusetion #1 ********* Model selection in GAM can be done by using: 1. step.gam {gam} : A directional stepwise search 2. gam {mgcv} : Smoothness estimation using GCV or UBRE/AIC criterion Suppose my model starts with a additive model (linear part + spline part). Using gam() {mgcv} i got estimated degrees of freedom(edf) for the smoothing splines. Now I want to use the functional form of my model