Hello,

You seem to be misreading the help pages for lm and predict.lm, argument 'terms'. A much simpler way of solving your problem should be to invert the fitted model using lm():


model <- lm(area ~ concn, data)  # Your original model
inv.model <- lm(concn ~ area, data = data)  # Your problem's model.

# predicts from original data
pred1 <- predict(inv.model)
# predict from new data
pred2 <- predict(inv.model, newdata = new)

# Let's see it.
plot(concn ~ area, data = data)
abline(inv.model)
points(data$area, pred1, col="blue", pch="+")
points(new$area, pred2, col="red", pch=16)


Also, 'data' is a really bad variable name, it's already an R function.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 28-08-2012 23:30, John Thaden escreveu:
Hello all,

How do I actually use the output of predict.lm(..., type="terms") to
predict new term values from new response values?

I'm a  chromatographer trying to use R (2.15.1) for one of the most
common calculations in that business:

     - Given several chromatographic peak areas measured for control
samples containing a molecule at known (increasing) concentrations,
       first derive a linear regression model relating the known
concentration (predictor) to the observed peak area (response)
     - Then, given peak areas from new (real) samples containing
unknown amounts of the molecule, use the model to predict
concentrations of the
       molecule in the unknowns.

In other words, given y = mx +b, I need to solve x' = (y'-b)/m for new data y'

and in R, I'm trying something like this

require(stats)
data <- data.frame(area = c(4875, 8172, 18065, 34555), concn = c(25,
50, 125, 250))
new <- data.frame(area = c(8172, 10220, 11570, 24150))
model <- lm(area ~ concn, data)
pred <- predict(model, type = "terms")
#predicts from original data
pred <- predict(model, type = "terms", newdata = new)
                 #error
pred <- predict(model, type = "terms", newdata = new, se.fit = TRUE)
           #error
pred <- predict(model, type = "terms", newdata = new, interval =
"prediction")  #error
new2 <- data.frame(area = c(8172, 10220, 11570, 24150), concn = 0)
new2
pred <- predict(model, type = "terms", newdata = new2)
                #wrong results

Can someone please show me what I'm doing wrong?

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