Sure it does, but still struggling with what is going on... Thanks
John ________________________________ From:David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> To:David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> oject.org> Sent:Monday, November 7, 2011 10:27 PM Subject:Re: [R] why NA coefficients But this output suggests there may be alligators in the swamp: > predict(lmod, newdata=data.frame(treat=1, group=2)) 1 0.09133691 Warning message: In predict.lm(lmod, newdata = data.frame(treat = 1, group = 2)) : prediction from a rank-deficient fit may be misleading --David. > > --David. >> >> Thanks >> >> John >> >> >> From: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> >> Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> >> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 5:13 PM >> Subject: Re: [R] why NA coefficients >> >> >> On Nov 7, 2011, at 7:33 PM, array chip wrote: >> >> > Hi, I am trying to run ANOVA with an interaction term on 2 factors (treat >> > has 7 levels, group has 2 levels). I found the coefficient for the last >> > interaction term is always 0, see attached dataset and the code below: >> > >> >> test<-read.table("test.txt",sep='\t',header=T,row.names=NULL) >> >> lm(y~factor(treat)*factor(group),test) >> > >> > Call: >> > lm(formula = y ~ factor(treat) * factor(group), data = test) >> > >> > Coefficients: >> > (Intercept) factor(treat)2 >> >factor(treat)3 >> > 0.429244 0.499982 >> > 0.352971 >> > factor(treat)4 factor(treat)5 >> >factor(treat)6 >> > -0.204752 0.142042 >> > 0.044155 >> > factor(treat)7 factor(group)2 >> >factor(treat)2:factor(group)2 >> > -0.007775 -0.337907 >> > -0.208734 >> > factor(treat)3:factor(group)2 factor(treat)4:factor(group)2 >> > factor(treat)5:factor(group)2 >> > -0.195138 0.800029 >> > 0.227514 >> > factor(treat)6:factor(group)2 factor(treat)7:factor(group)2 >> > 0.331548 NA >> > >> > >> > I guess this is due to model matrix being singular or collinearity among >> > the matrix columns? But I can't figure out how the matrix is singular in >> > this case? Can someone show me why this is the case? >> >> Because you have no cases in one of the crossed categories. >> >> --David Winsemius, MD >> West Hartford, CT >> >> >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.orgmailing 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. David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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