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Dear All: I am interested in multinomial logit models (function multinon, library nnet) but I'm having troubles in choose whether to define the predictors as factors or not. I had posted earlier this example (thanks for the reply ronggui): worms<- data.frame(year= rep(2000:2004, c(3,3,3,3,3)),age=rep(1:3,5),

Hi All, In package e1071 for SVM based classification, one can get a probability measure for each prediction. I like to know what is method that is used for calculating this probability. Is it calculated using logistic link function? Thanks for your help. Regards, Raj

Hi All, Sorry for this is a very naive question. I am trying to do binary classification (male vs female) using glm using following data: X1 X2 X3 Class 2.3 4.5 2.1 Male 0.9 3.2 1.6 Male 1.7 1.8 2.6 Feamle I am trying to use predict.glm for prediction with type="respose" which gives the predicted probabilities as per documentation. My

Hello, I want to do feature selection for classification purpose (using lda). Can someone point me to any R package or S-plus package for this? Something like SFS or SFFS method would be useful for me. Thanks. Raj [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I am using logistic discriminant analysis to check whether a known classification Yobs can be predicted by few continuous variables X. What I do is to predict class probabilities with multinom() in nnet(), obtaining a predicted classification Ypred and then compute the percentage P(obs) of objects classified the same in Yobs and Ypred. My problem now is to figure out whether P(obs) is

I have RedHat linux 9 with R 1.8. I'm estimating models with multinom with a dependent variable that has 3 different values. Sometimes the models run fine and I can understand the results. Sometimes when I put in another variable, I see an indication that the estimation did work, but then I can't get the summary method to work. It's like this: > votemn1 <-

Dear Colleagues, I would like to do classification using logistic regression. Which R package can I use? Also is there any package for feature selection for logistic regression based method? Thanks a lot in advance. Happy holidays. Regards, Raj [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I am searching for methods to compare regression models with an ordered categorical response variable (polr versus multinom). The pattern of predictions of both methods (using the same predictor variables) is quite different and the AIC is smaller for the multinom approach. I guess polr has more strict premises for the structure of the response variable, which methods can be used to test for

Dear R users, Does anyone know if it is possible to use multinom to do a polychotomous fit using one categorical and one numeric variable as response. The doc. for multinom states that for formula , response can be K>2 classes. Is this 2 and more, or as I have understood it only greater than 2. I have tried fitting my data, but have only encountered error messages. On another note, Is it

Best R Help, I like to estimate a Multinomial Logit Model with 10 Classes. The problem is that the number of observations differs a lot over the 10 classes: Class | num. Observations A | 373 B | 631 C | 171 D | 700 E | 87 F | 249 G | 138 H | 133 I | 162 J | 407 Total: 3051 Where my data looks like: x1 x2 x3 x4 Class 1 1,02 2 1 A 2 7,2 1 5 B 3 4,2 1 4 H 1 4,1 1 8 F 2 2,4 3 7 D 1 1,2 0 4 J 2 0,9

Hi all, I'm working on a multinomial (or "polytomous") logistic regression using R and have made great progress using multinom() from the nnet library. My response variable has three categories, and there are two different possible predictors. I'd like to use the likelihoods of certain models (ie, saturated, fitteds, and null) to calculate Nagelkerke R-squared values for

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

Is anyone aware of a way to check whether multinom has converged by checking a component of the output ? I'm not familar with nnet but, since multinom calls nnet , maybe there is an extra argument once can send to multinom to capture this information. Thanks.

Dear all, I'm fitting a multinom function to my dataset (multinom(outcome~age+K+D)) and I need to present my results on a poster. Does someone know a nice way of doing that? I think I saw in an archive that you cannot plot a multinom.object, is it true? Thank you by advance for your help, Cheers Camille

Hi, I am trying to specify a multinomial logit model using the multinom function from the nnet package. Now I add another independent variable and it halves the AIC as given by summary(multinom()). But when I call Anova(multinom()) from the car package, it tells me that this added variable is insignificant (Pr(>Chisq)=0.39). Thus, the improved AIC suggests to keep the variable but the Anova

I want to get the logLik to calculate McFadden.R2 ,ML.R2 and Cragg.Uhler.R2, but the value from multinom does not have logLik.So my quetion is : is logLik meaningful to multinomial logistic model from multinom?If it does, how can I get it? Thank you! ps: I konw VGAM has function to get the multinomial logistic model with logLik, but I prefer use the function from "official" R

Hi, I am having difficulty entering a 'programmable' argument into the multinom function from the nnet package. Interactively, I can get the function to work fine by calling it this way: z1=multinom(formula = class.ind(grp[-outgroup])~ (PC1 + PC2 + PC3), data=data.frame(scores)) However I need to be able to change the number of variables I am looking for in 'scores' and so am

Dear R users, I'm using a multinomial LOGIT model to analyse choice behaviour of consumers (as part of my masters thesis research). Using the R documentation and search on the R website I have a working script now. Parameters are estimated and I can access them via coefficients(multinom.out). In order to see if the parameters are significant I like to access the standard errors in the

Dear all, I have found some difference of the results between multinom() function in R and multinomial logistic regression in SPSS software. The input data, model and parameters are below: choles <- c(94, 158, 133, 164, 162, 182, 140, 157, 146, 182); sbp <- c(105, 121, 128, 149, 132, 103, 97, 128, 114, 129); case <- c(1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2); result <- multinom(case ~ choles

Hi, Just wonder if someone could comment on using linear discriminant analysis (LDA) vs. multinomial logistic regression in multi-class classification/prediction (nomial dependent variable, not ordinal)? What kind of difference in results can I expect from the 2 methods, which is better or more appropriate, or under what condiditon should I used one instead of the other? And is there other