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Hi, I found that using different contrasts (e.g. contr.helmert vs. contr.treatment) will generate different fitted probabilities from multinomial logistic regression using multinom(); while the fitted probabilities from binary logistic regression seem to be the same. Why is that? and for multinomial logisitc regression, what contrast should be used? I guess it's helmert? here is an example

Dear R users, When fitting a lme() object (from the nlme library), is it possible to test interactions *before* main effects? As I understand, R conventionally re-orders all terms such that highest-order interactions come last - but I??d like to know if it??s possible (and sensible) to change this ordering of terms. I??ve tried the terms() command (from aov) but I don??t know if something

Hi all, I have dataset with 2 independent variable, one (x1) is continuous, the other (x2) is a categorical variable with 2 levels. The dependent variable (y) is continuous. When I run linear regression y~x1*x2, I found that the p value for the continuous independent variable x1 changes when different contrasts was used (helmert vs. treatment), while the p values for the categorical x2 and

On 6/23/05, RenE J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I was just having a look at the aov function source code, and see that when the model used does not have an Error term, Helmert contrasts are imposed: > > if (is.null(indError)) { > ... > } > else { > opcons <- options("contrasts") >

I was surprised by this (in R 2.0.1): > a <- ordered(-1:1) > a [1] -1 0 1 Levels: -1 < 0 < 1 > model.matrix(~ a) (Intercept) a.L a.Q 1 1 -7.071068e-01 0.4082483 2 1 -9.073800e-17 -0.8164966 3 1 7.071068e-01 0.4082483 attr(,"assign") [1] 0 1 1 attr(,"contrasts") attr(,"contrasts")$a [1]

Hi, I have some doubt about how qualitative factors are coded in R. For instance, I consider a response y, a quantitative factor x and a qualitative factor m at 3 levels, generated as follow : y_c(6,4,2.3,5,3.5,4,1.,8.5,4.3,5.6,2.3,4.1,2.5,8.4,7.4) x_c(3,1,3,1,2,1,4,5,1,3,4,2,5,4,3) m_gl(3,5) lm(y~x+m) Coefficients: (Intercept) x m2 m3 3.96364 0.09818

Hello R-users, I am trying to obtain Type III SS for an ANOVA with subsampling. My design is slightly unbalanced with either 3 or 4 subsamples per replicate. The basic aov model would be: fit <- aov(y~x+Error(subsample)) But this gives Type I SS and not Type III. But, using the drop() option: drop1(fit, test="F") I get an error message: "Error in

Hi all, I have been trying to calculate Type III SS in R for an unbalanced two-way anova. However, the Type III SS are lower for the first factor compared to type I but higher for the second factor (see below). I have the impression that Type III are always lower than Type I - is that right? And a clarification about how to fit Type III SS. Fitting model<-aov(y~a*b) in the base package and

This is my first post to this list so I suppose a quick intro is in order. I've been using SPLUS 2000 and R1.6.2 for just a couple of days, and love S already. I'm reading MASS and also John Fox's book - both have been very useful. My background in stat software was mainly SPSS (which I've never much liked - thanks heavens I've found S!), and Perl is my tool of choice for

Hi, perhaps this is a stupid question, but i need some help about Helmert contrasts in the Cox model. I have a survival data frame with an unordered factor `group' with levels 0 ... 5. Calculating the Cox model with Helmert contrasts, i expected that the first coefficient would be the same as if i had used treatment contrasts, but this is not true. I this a error in reasoning, or is it

Hi, Somebody knows how to make contrasts if i'm using the function adonis? Thanks.

Hi all, I'm working with a dataset from 10 treatments, each treatment with 30 subjects, each subject measured 5 times. The plot of the dataset suggests that a 3-parameter logistic could be a reasonable function to describe the data. When I try to fit the model using gnls I got the message 'Step halving factor reduced below minimum in NLS step'. I´m using as the initial values of the

I'm trying to better understand the nlme package and have a few questions. 1.) Other than using various coding strategies (e.g., dummy coding, effect coding), is there a way to identify group membership (i.e., treatment) directly? For example, the following code will fit a two group logistic growth curve (where 'Score' is repeatedly measured over 'Time' for each of the

Dear R-Community! The example "oats" in MASS (2nd edition, 10.3, p.309) is calculated for aov and lme without interaction term and the results are the same. But I have problems to reproduce the example aov with interaction in MASS (10.2, p.301) with lme. Here the script: library(MASS) library(nlme) options(contrasts = c("contr.treatment", "contr.poly")) # aov: Y ~

Hi everyone, Can someone explain me how to calculate SAS type III sums of squares in R? Not that I would like to use them, I know they are problematic. I would like to know how to calculate them in order to demonstrate that strange things happen when you use them (for a course for example). I know you can use drop1(lm(), test="F") but for an lm(y~A+B+A:B), type III SSQs are only

Hi, I'm just learning about poison links for the glm function. One of the data sets I'm playing with has several of the variables as factors (i.e. month, group, etc.) When I call the glm function with a formula that has a factor variable, R automatically converts the variable to a series of variables with unique names and binary values. For example, with this pseudo data: y

Dear R-helpers, I try to perform glm's with negative binomial distributed data. So I use the MASS library and the commands: model_1 = glm.nb(response ~ y1 + y2 + ...+ yi, data = data.frame) and predict(model_1, newdata = data.frame) So far, I think everything should be ok. But when I want to perform a glm with a subset of the data, I run into an error message as soon as I want to predict

I am using RW 1.2.3. on an IBM PC 300GL. Using the data bp.dat which accompanies Helen Brown and Robin Prescott 1999 Applied Mixed Models in Medicine. Statistics in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, USA which is also found at www.med.ed.ac.uk/phs/mixed. The data file was opened and initialized with > dat <- read.table("bp.dat") >

Is there any logical reason why glm prints out the labels of factor levels after variable names when baseline contrasts (contr.treatment) are used but the codes for the levels when mean contrasts (contr.sum) are used? Jim -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info",

I'm running a series of simple bivariate linear regressions on grouped data. I want to test the slopes to see if they are parallel. I normally use analysis of covariance to do so, looking at interaction between the covariate and the factor to make this determination. VR3 pp.149 - 154 has a very nice example of an ANOCOVA, ending with a discussion of this very operation. My question has