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John Kane
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sam_l_cruicksh...@hotmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:09:13 +0100
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Negative values on output
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> Good afternoon,
> I am completed a linear regression model which I personally am happy with
> the output and residual charts (although they are a bit bunched).  I have
> been using visreg() to visualise my data, and although I have logged the
> dependent variable (as it is cost data), on one of the graphical outputs
> I am getting negative fitted values for one of the Continents.  Attached
> is the data used, below is the code for the model and graph.  If anyone
> has any ideas I would hugely appreciate it, I tried a glm with log link
> too and this didn't help.
> LM22 <- lm(logTotal ~ logArea + Continent + factor(Method1) + Popdens,
> data=dummy)
> Output Residuals:     Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max -1.22742
> -0.31675 -0.00909  0.28885  1.20224
> Coefficients:                       Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> (Intercept)            -1.40972    0.77661  -1.815 0.081506 .  logArea
> 0.03811    0.04041   0.943 0.354619    ContinentAsia           3.51165
> 0.80009   4.389 0.000182 ***ContinentAustralasia    3.48549    0.97433
> 3.577 0.001454 ** ContinentEurope         2.44829    0.82369   2.972
> 0.006452 ** ContinentGlobal         2.37910    1.00668   2.363 0.026197 *
> ContinentNorth America  2.27953    0.62960   3.621 0.001303 **
> ContinentSouth America  3.60997    0.77627   4.650 9.22e-05
> ***factor(Method1)2        1.11259    0.38386   2.898 0.007696 **
> factor(Method1)3        0.82519    0.47470   1.738 0.094459 .
> factor(Method1)4       -0.06737    0.67341  -0.100 0.921104    Popdens
> -0.14261    0.31675  -0.450 0.656435    ---Signif. codes:  0 *** 0.001 **
> 0.01 * 0.05 . 0.1   1
> Residual standard error: 0.6151 on 25 degrees of freedom  (12
> observations deleted due to missingness)Multiple R-squared:  0.6998,
> Adjusted R-squared:  0.5677 F-statistic: 5.297 on 11 and 25 DF,  p-value:
> 0.0002714
> visreg(LM22) gives me a graph with "Africa" being within the realm of
> negative "Total" which is impossible.  If you tell me how  can provide
> the data and graphs, but the email was kicked back with them in.
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