similar to: Dropping terms from regression w/ poly()

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use lme() for analyzing a split-plot experiment. I've been looking at the examples from the 'R Book', those are nested but with only one factor at the whole-plot level, my test is 2^2 at the whole-plot level, with a single many level factor at the sub-plot level. My question is about properly specifying the random effects part of the model,

Hi all! I'm new to this forum so please excuse me if I don't conform perfectly to the protocols on this board! I'm trying to get an estimate of true prevalence based upon results from an imperfect test. I have various estimates of se/sp which could inform my priors (at least upper and lower limits even if with a uniform distribution) and found the following code on this website..

Dear r-help, Somewhere in my innocuous function to rotate an object in Cartesian space I've created a monster that completely locks up my computer (requires a hard reset every time). I don't know if this is useful description to anyone - the mouse still responds, but not the keyboard and not windows explorer. The script only does this when the input matrix is large, and so my initial

Hi all, I am facing difficulty on how to use bootstrap sampling and below is my example of function. Read a data , use some functions and use iteration to find the solution( ie, convergence is reached). I want to use bootstrap approach to do it several times (200 or 300 times) this whole process and see the distribution of parameter of interest. Below is a small example that resembles my

Dear list members, How can I replace the nested for loops at then end of the script below with more efficient code? # Begin script__________________________________________________ # Dichotomous scores for 100 respondents on 3 items with # probabilities of a correct response = .6, .4, and .7, # respectively x1 <- rbinom(100,1,.6) x2 <- rbinom(100,1,.4) x3 <- rbinom(100,1,.7) #

hi sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm wondering why the scaled Schoenfeld residuals do not follow the defining formula for obtaining them from the ordinary Schoenfeld residuals, but are instead offset by the estimated parameter values. e.g. library(survival) attach(ovarian) sv<-Surv(futime,fustat) f1<-coxph(sv~age+ecog.ps) f1

The poly() function can create more variables than can be fitted when there are replicated values. In the example below, 'x' has only 5 distinct values, but I can apparently fit a 12th-degree polynomial with no error messages or even nonzero coefficients: R> x = rep(1:5,3) R> y = rnorm(15) R> lm(y ~ poly(x, 12)) Call: lm(formula = y ~ poly(x, 12)) Coefficients:

Full_Name: Russell Lenth Version: 2.6.2 OS: Windows XP Pro Submission from: (NULL) (128.255.132.36) The poly() function allows a higher-degree polynomial than it should, when raw=FALSE. For example, consider 5 distinct 'x' values, each repeated twice. we can fit a polynomial of degree 8: ===== R> x = rep(1:5, 2) R> y = rnorm(10) R> lm(y ~ poly(x, 8)) Call: lm(formula = y ~

Dear r-devel list members, I've recently encountered the following problem using predict() with a model that has raw-polynomial terms. (Actually, I encountered the problem using model.frame(), but the source of the error is the same.) The problem is technical and concerns the design of poly(), which is why I'm sending this message to r-devel rather than r-help. To illustrate:

Dear all, I am trying to transform polynomial coefficients from orthogonal form to the standard power basis. There's poly.transform in S-plus. Does anybody know how to do that in R ? I've found question about that in the archives of R-help but no real answer. Example : I'm doing polynomial regression of percentage of one insect in a community on altitude, precipitations,

I ran into a to me surprising result on running lm with an orthogonal polynomial among the predictors. The lm command resulted in Error in qr(X) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) Error during wrapup: despite my using a "subset" in the call to get rid of NA's. poly is apparently evaluated before any NA's are subsetted out of the data. Example code (attached to

Often in practical situations a predictor has missing values, so that poly crashes. For instance: > x<-1:10 > y<- x - 3 * x^2 + rnorm(10)/3 > x[3]<-NA > lm( y ~ poly(x,2) ) Error in poly(x, 2) : missing values are not allowed in 'poly' > > lm( y ~ poly(x,2) , subset=!is.na(x)) # This does not help?!? Error in poly(x, 2) : missing values are not allowed in

DDear developeRs, about a year ago, Alex Stolpovsky posted an issue with predict.lm on a fit generated using poly with the raw=TRUE option and too few new data (slightly modified reproducible example below). Alex did not get any reply. I have just stumbled on the same problem, and I think that this is a bug of function poly, which arises from the check whether the polynomial degree is

By any chance is anyone aware of an R function that duplicates Octave's poly function? Here is a description of Octave's poly function: Function File: poly (A) If A is a square N-by-N matrix, `poly (A)' is the row vector of the coefficients of `det (z * eye (N) - a)', the characteristic polynomial of A. As an example we can use this to find the eigenvalues

Hi, I am curious about how to interpret the results of a polynomial regression-- using poly(raw=TRUE) vs. poly(raw=FALSE). set.seed(123456) x <- rnorm(100) y <- jitter(1*x + 2*x^2 + 3*x^3 , 250) plot(y ~ x) l.poly <- lm(y ~ poly(x, 3)) l.poly.raw <- lm(y ~ poly(x, 3, raw=TRUE)) s <- seq(-3, 3, by=0.1) lines(s, predict(l.poly, data.frame(x=s)), col=1) lines(s,

Dear all, I am using poly() in lm() in the following form. 1> DelsDPWOS.lm3 <- lm(DelsPDWOS[,1] ~ poly(DelsPDWOS[,4],3)) 2> DelsDPWOS.I.lm3 <- lm(DelsPDWOS[,1] ~ poly(I(DelsPDWOS[,4]),3)) 3> DelsDPWOS.2.lm3 <- lm(DelsPDWOS[,1]~DelsPDWOS[,4]+I(DelsPDWOS[,4]^2)+I(DelsPDWOS[,4]^3)) 1 and 2 lead to identical but wrong results. 3 is correct. Surprisingly (to me) the residuals

Dear R experts, I am observing undesired behavior of predict(fit, newdata), in case when fit object is produced by lm() involving a poly(). Here is how to reproduce: x <- c(1:10) y <- sin(c(1:10)) fit <- lm(formula=y~poly(x, 5, raw=TRUE)) predict(fit, newdata=data.frame(x=c(1:10))) ## this works predict(fit, newdata=data.frame(x=c(1:1))) ## this is broken, error below Error in poly(x,

Full_Name: Jens Keienburg Version: 2.3.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.53.122) I used the function lm() to calculate the coefficients of a polynome. If I used the function poly(t,2) to denote a polynome of form 1 + x + x^2, the coefficients are wrong. I appended an excerpt below: > t=1:100 > p=-20 - 10 * t + 2 * t^2 > p [1] -28 -32 -32 -28 -20 -8 8

How can I get the result of, e.g., poly(1:3. degree=2) to give me the unnormalized integer coefficients usually used to explain orthogonal polynomial contrasts, e.g, -1 1 0 -2 1 1 As I understand things, the columns of x^{1:degree} are first centered and then are normalized by 1/sqrt(col sum of squares), but I can't see how to relate this to what is returned by poly(). >

Dear R users, I'm trying to fit a gamma-frailty model on a simulated dataset, with 6 covariates, and I'm running into some results I do not understand. I constructed an example from my simulation code, where I fit a coxph model without frailty (M1) and with frailty (M2) on a number of data samples with a varying degree of heterogeneity (I'm running R 2.3.1, running takes ~1 min).