Hi Ashley, It does not look like you have done the wrong thing to me. The results will be different because eacho f the parameter estimates is now the change from SS to ___ instead of from HH to ____. In fact, from your first table, you can calculate all the parameters in the second. The intercept for SS as reference is:
(-5.2671) + (-18.2990) = -23.5661 the difference between SH and SS is: > (-0.5736) - (-18.2990) [1] 17.7254 which is now the parameter estimate for SH in the SS as reference model. You could go on in like fashion for the rest. HTH, Josh On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM, ashley <akni...@csumb.edu> wrote: > Hello list readers, > > I am running a set of GLMs on fish spp presence/absence as a function of > various habitat characteristics. My response is binomial and I have four > predictors, three of which are categorical. > > So, R takes one of my predictor-variables away to use as the intercept (the > first one alphabetically). However, I want to know the coefficient and SE of > this predictor. I tried relevel() and reran the model. Abbreviated summary() > results for each run are below. The results seem drastically different. Have > I done the wrong thing? > > (Below is a result from the model with only one predictor, to save space and > hassle.) > > Thanks, > Ashley > > #Default reference level = HH: > > Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) > (Intercept) -5.2671 0.2781 -18.942 <2e-16 *** > raw.table$SubsComboHS 0.8127 0.6438 1.262 0.207 > raw.table$SubsComboSH -0.5736 1.0393 -0.552 0.581 > raw.table$SubsComboSS -18.2990 923.6023 -0.020 0.984 > > #Command used to change reference level: >> raw.table$SubsCombo<-relevel(raw.table$SubsCombo, ref="SS") > > #New reference level = SS: > > Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) > (Intercept) -23.57 923.60 -0.026 0.980 > raw.table$SubsComboHH 18.30 923.60 0.020 0.984 > raw.table$SubsComboHS 19.11 923.60 0.021 0.983 > raw.table$SubsComboSH 17.73 923.60 0.019 0.985 > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Relevel-catagorical-variables-in-a-GLM-tp3558181p3558181.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
