On Apr 19, 2013, at 12:40 AM, Nilesh Gupta wrote:
> lm() does not accomodate more than 50 independent variables
What is your source for this misinformation?
> dat <- as.data.frame(matrix(rnorm(51000), ncol=51) )
> names(dat)
[1] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4" "V5" "V6" "V7" "V8" "V9" "V10" "V11" "V12"
"V13" "V14" "V15" "V16" "V17" "V18"
[19] "V19" "V20" "V21" "V22" "V23" "V24" "V25" "V26" "V27" "V28" "V29" "V30"
"V31" "V32" "V33" "V34" "V35" "V36"
[37] "V37" "V38" "V39" "V40" "V41" "V42" "V43" "V44" "V45" "V46" "V47" "V48"
"V49" "V50" "V51"
> lm(V1 ~ ., dat=dat)
Call:
lm(formula = V1 ~ ., data = dat)
Coefficients:
(Intercept) V2 V3 V4 V5 V6
V7 V8
-0.0089517 -0.0427225 -0.0754946 -0.0002903 -0.0083482 0.0324383
-0.0194980 -0.0151008
V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14
V15 V16
0.0255324 -0.0167399 0.0476841 -0.0222229 0.0720990 -0.0174327
-0.0104261 0.0024625
V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
V23 V24
-0.0086276 -0.0274867 -0.0345897 0.0209116 0.0368201 -0.0027364
0.0090916 0.0198854
V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30
V31 V32
-0.0083732 -0.0216937 0.0586361 -0.0530041 0.0402765 0.0073514
0.0295976 -0.0641553
V33 V34 V35 V36 V37 V38
V39 V40
0.0491071 -0.0261259 0.0364740 0.0070261 -0.0159851 -0.0373357
0.0506756 -0.0383495
V41 V42 V43 V44 V45 V46
V47 V48
0.0054945 0.0089468 -0.0050151 -0.0184369 0.0019926 -0.0177631
0.0282828 0.0353523
V49 V50 V51
-0.0382634 0.0545654 0.0101398
> dat <- as.data.frame(matrix(rnorm(101000), ncol=101) )
> lm(V1 ~ ., dat=dat)
Call:
lm(formula = V1 ~ ., data = dat)
Coefficients:
(Intercept) V2 V3 V4 V5 V6
V7 V8
0.021065 -0.015988 -0.008273 0.049849 0.014874 0.012352
-0.054584 0.004542
V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14
V15 V16
-0.017186 0.018006 -0.009707 -0.007382 0.044886 -0.051122
-0.026910 -0.048929
V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
V23 V24
-0.008129 0.022129 -0.063525 0.026683 0.013424 -0.010145
-0.046046 0.024025
V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30
V31 V32
-0.003529 -0.038270 0.043657 0.049855 0.010691 0.041217
-0.012596 0.018302
V33 V34 V35 V36 V37 V38
V39 V40
0.040225 -0.012751 -0.062677 -0.002810 -0.002574 -0.024137
0.021324 -0.041520
V41 V42 V43 V44 V45 V46
V47 V48
-0.076482 0.009063 0.067097 -0.042554 -0.013789 0.002865
0.017325 -0.076860
V49 V50 V51 V52 V53 V54
V55 V56
-0.007003 -0.007315 0.030270 0.022066 -0.002224 -0.056534
0.013705 -0.003609
V57 V58 V59 V60 V61 V62
V63 V64
-0.044580 -0.037543 0.015745 0.035250 -0.017117 0.072470
0.004398 -0.015923
V65 V66 V67 V68 V69 V70
V71 V72
0.012864 -0.062752 -0.038437 -0.019586 0.019871 -0.068398
-0.111778 0.021416
V73 V74 V75 V76 V77 V78
V79 V80
0.036849 -0.009103 0.037790 0.021883 -0.034990 -0.014917
-0.003854 0.001760
V81 V82 V83 V84 V85 V86
V87 V88
-0.001812 0.003942 0.021810 -0.013984 -0.030446 0.049187
0.008392 0.026965
V89 V90 V91 V92 V93 V94
V95 V96
0.057301 0.004190 0.055505 -0.046006 -0.019080 -0.098889
-0.010891 -0.002729
V97 V98 V99 V100 V101
0.024939 -0.029847 0.063578 -0.061667 -0.022163
> system.time( lm(V1 ~ ., dat=dat) ) # with the 101 column dataframe
user system elapsed
0.060 0.008 0.076
Sorry to give you such a Frost-y reception, but you are being somewhat ...
what's the right word... sleepy?
--
David.
>
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>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:26 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2013, at 21:24 , Nilesh Gupta wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all
>>>
>>> Is there a method/package in R in which I can do regressions for more
>> than
>>> 50 independent variables ?
>>
>> What's wrong with lm() et al.?
>>
>> --
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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