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Hello [R]-help I am trying to find > a package where you can do ANOVA based trend analysis on grouped data > using orthogonal polynomial contrasts coefficients, for unequally > spaced factor levels. The closest hit I've had is from this web site: >(http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xN4K_KGuYGcJ:www.datavis.ca/sasmac/orpoly.html+Orthogonal+polynomial >l but I

Dear all, I do not seem to grasp how contrasts are set for ordered factors. Perhaps someone can elighten me? When I work with ordered factors, I would often like to be able to reduce the used polynomial to a simpler one (where possible). Thus, I would like to explicetly code the polynomial but ideally, the intial model (thus, the full polynomial) would be identical to one with an ordered factor.

Hi, After running a regression on a factor variable, summary() reports the coefficients 'nicely,' ie, labelled with a string that is a concatenation of the variable name and the factor label. However, changing the base case a la contrasts(variable)<-contr.treatment(N, base=x) results in the coefficients being reported as a less-helpful concatenation of variable name plus a digit. Of

How do you remove one of the terms from an ordered polynomial contrast in your linear model. For example, I have significant terms for linear and cubic but not quadratic, how would i remove the quadratic term from lm(response~treatment) Cheers, Chris -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Orthogonal-polynomial-contrasts-tp16608353p16608353.html Sent from the R help mailing list

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

Hi, I need to build a function to generate one column for each level of a factor in the model matrix created on an arbitrary formula (instead of using the available contrasts options such as contr.treatment, contr.SAS, etc). My approach to this was first to use the built-in function for contr.treatment but changing the default value of the contrasts argument to FALSE (I named this function

Hi Folks, I'm comparing some output from R with output from SPSS. The coefficients of the independent variables (which are all factors, each at 2 levels) are identical. However, R's Intercept (using default contr.treatment) differs from SPSS's 'constant'. It seems that the contrasts were set in SPSS using /CONTRAST (varname)=Simple(1) I can get R's Intercept to match

Code: > options("contrasts") $contrasts factor ordered "contr.treatment" "contr.poly" I want to change the first entry ONLY, without retyping "contr.poly". How do I do it? I have tried various possibilities and cannot get anything to work. I found out that the response to options("contrasts") has class

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Hi all, I have been searching all sorts of documentation, reference cards, cheat sheets but can't find why R's crossprod(A, B) which is identical to A%*%B does not produce the same as Matlabs cross(A, B) Supposedly both calculate the cross product, and say so, or where do I go wrong? R is only doing sums in the crossprod however, as indicated by (z <- crossprod(1:4)) # = sum(1 +

Hi all, I am trying to do a ordered probit regression using polr(), replicating a result from SAS. >polr(y ~ x, dat, method='probit') suppose the model is y ~ x, where y is a factor with 3 levels and x is a factor with 5 levels, To get coefficients, SAS by default use the last level as reference, R by default use the first level (correct me if I was wrong), The result I got is a

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

glm(A~B+C+D+E+F,family = binomial(link = "logit"),data=tre,na.action=na.omit) Error in `contrasts<-`(`*tmp*`, value = "contr.treatment") : contrasts can be applied only to factors with 2 or more levels however, glm(A~B+C+D+E,family = binomial(link = "logit"),data=tre,na.action=na.omit) runs fine glm(A~B+C+D+F,family = binomial(link =

Hello, I've fitted a parametric survival model by > survreg(Surv(Week, Cens) ~ C(Treatment, srmod.contr), > data = poll.surv.wo3) where srmod.contr is the following matrix of contrasts: prep auto poll self home [1,] 1 1 1.0000000 0.0 0 [2,] -1 0 0.0000000 0.0 0 [3,] 0 -1 0.0000000 0.0 0 [4,] 0 0 -0.3333333 1.0 0 [5,] 0 0

Dear all, I'm working with Cox-regression, because data could be censored. But in this particular case not. Now I have a simple example: PRO and PRE are (0,1) coded. The response is not normal distributed. We are interested in a model which could describe interaction. But my results are depending strongly in the choose of the contrast option. It is clear that there is some dependence in

i am getting the following error Error in `contrasts<-`(`*tmp*`, value = contr.funs[1 + isOF[nn]]) : contrasts can be applied only to factors with 2 or more levels can any on e suggest how to rectify [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Ben, Perhaps I'm missing the point, but contrasts.arg is documented to be a list. From ?model.matrix: "contrasts.arg: A list, whose entries are values (numeric matrices or character strings naming functions) to be used as replacement values for the contrasts replacement function and whose names are the names of columns of data containing factors." This isn't entirely

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

In S-Plus, I can obtain polynomial contrasts for an ordered factor with contr.poly(). The function also exists in R, however is limited to factors where the levels are equally spaced. In S-Plus, one can obtain the contrasts for a set of numeric values representing unequally spaced ordered factors. Has anyone implemented this in R? I see that the S-Plus function calls another function (poly.raw())

Hi, The "penalized" documentation says that "Unordered factors are turned into as many dummy variables as the factor has levels". This is done by a function in the package called contr.none. I'm trying to figure out how exactly is a model matrix created with this contrast option when the user calls the function with a formula. I typed "library(penalized) ;