Hi all,

I´m fitting GLM´s and I can´t interprete the coefficients when I run a model with interaction terms.

When I run the simpliest model there is no problem:

Model1<-glm (Fishes ~ Year + I(Year^2) + Kind.Geographic + Kind.Fishers + Zone.2 + Hours + Fishers + Month, family = poisson(log)) # Fishes, Year, Hours, and Fishers are numeric, Kind.Geographic, Kind.Fishers, Zone.2 and Month are factors with 4, 3, 5 and 12 levels respectively.

Model1$coefficients (whith Helmert contrasts):

(Intercept) Year IYear^2 Kind.Geographic1 Kind.Geographic2 Kind.Geographic3 Kind.Fishers1 Kind.Fishers2 Zone.21 Zone.22 Zone.23 Zone.24 -4.416915e+02 4.758455e-01 -1.270986e-04 -5.436199e-01 -1.068809e-01 -1.498580e-01 2.958462e-01 1.316589e-01 -1.328204e-01 -1.605802e-01 5.281869e-03 7.422885e-02 Hours Fishers Month1 Month2 Month3 Month4 Month5 Month6 Month7 Month8 Month9 Month10 9.772076e-02 -2.709955e-03 -1.586887e-01 -1.887837e-02 -5.183241e-03 5.870942e-02 7.075386e-02 2.061223e-02 7.372268e-03 -1.204835e-02 -5.047994e-03 2.441498e-02
       Month11
 -5.665261e-03

So I can write, for example:

y = -4.416915e+02 + -1.270986e-04*x^2 + 4.758455e-01*x # And add this function to a plot(Year,Fishes).

My problem is to understand the coefficients for the model with interaction:

Model2<-glm(Fishes ~ Year + I(Year^2) + Kind.Geographic + Kind.Fishers + Zone.2 + Hours + Fishers + Month + Year:Kind.Geographic + Year:Kind.Fishers + Year:Zone.2 + Year:Hours + Year:Fishers + Year:Month + Kind.Geographic:Hours + Kind.Fishers:Hours + Zone.2:Hours + Hours:Fishers + Hours:Month +Kind.Geographic:Fishers + Zone.2:Fishers + Fishers:Month , poisson (log))

Model2$coefficients (with Helmert contrast):

(Intercept) Year I(Year^2) Kind.Geographic1 Kind.Geographic2 Kind.Geographic3 Kind.Fishers1 Kind.Fishers2 1.641473e+03 -1.748703e+00 4.664752e-04 -6.721427e+00 1.856033e+01 -3.762727e-02 2.903564e+01 9.022858e+01 Zone.21 Zone.22 Zone.23 Zone.24 Hours Fishers Month1 Month2 8.110814e-02 -1.902803e+01 8.335792e+00 -3.661641e+00 -7.824623e+00 7.088065e-01 2.479387e+03 8.346729e+02 Month3 Month4 Month5 Month6 Month7 Month8 Month9 Month10 4.052680e+02 2.384440e+02 1.570644e+02 1.032445e+02 7.930499e+01 6.487925e+01 5.592869e+01 3.888328e+01 Month11 Year:Kind.Geographic1 Year:Kind.Geographic2 Year:Kind.Geographic3 Year:Kind.Fishers1 Year:Kind.Fishers2 Year:Zone.21 Year:Zone.22 4.801656e+01 3.397984e-03 -9.443234e-03 NA -1.449305e-02 -4.470212e-02 -6.269309e-05 9.421045e-03 Year:Zone.23 Year:Zone.24 Year:Hours Year:Fishers Year:Month1 Year:Month2 Year:Month3 Year:Month4 -4.184866e-03 1.854810e-03 3.257250e-03 -4.103058e-04 -1.264934e+00 -4.255907e-01 -2.069909e-01 -1.216459e-01 Year:Month5 Year:Month6 Year:Month7 Year:Month8 Year:Month9 Year:Month10 Year:Month11 Kind.Geographic1:Hours -8.015823e-02 -5.278291e-02 -4.054404e-02 -3.313487e-02 -2.846036e-02 -1.973118e-02 -2.410902e-02 1.341231e-01 Kind.Geographic2:Hours Kind.Geographic3:Hours Kind.Fishers1:Hours Kind.Fishers2:Hours Zone.21:Hours Zone.22:Hours Zone.23:Hours Zone.24:Hours 5.806418e-02 NA 1.318444e-02 -1.234521e-01 7.961319e-04 1.622411e-02 -5.357266e-04 7.749412e-03 Hours:Fishers Hours:Month1 Hours:Month2 Hours:Month3 Hours:Month4 Hours:Month5 Hours:Month6 Hours:Month7 -6.805803e-03 7.971549e+00 2.627090e+00 1.403430e+00 7.747360e-01 5.163810e-01 3.732549e-01 2.827511e-01 Hours:Month8 Hours:Month9 Hours:Month10 Hours:Month11 Kind.Geographic1:Fishers Kind.Geographic2:Fishers Kind.Geographic3:Fishers Zone.21:Fishers 2.091230e-01 1.057001e-01 1.159929e-01 NA -3.422994e-02 -3.421851e-03 NA -3.802354e-03 Zone.22:Fishers Zone.23:Fishers Zone.24:Fishers Fishers:Month1 Fishers:Month2 Fishers:Month3 Fishers:Month4 Fishers:Month5 1.618358e-05 4.197350e-04 -8.773088e-05 7.806815e-01 2.509529e-01 1.280752e-01 7.520139e-02 5.370220e-02 Fishers:Month6 Fishers:Month7 Fishers:Month8 Fishers:Month9 Fishers:Month10 Fishers:Month11 3.786759e-02 2.936135e-02 2.381810e-02 2.422438e-02 NA NA


I would like to know if it is possible to extract the intercepts and the slopes for Year and Year^2 for this Model2.

Thank you very much for your help.
________________________________________________________________________________
Pablo Pita Orduna
Grupo de Recursos Marinos y Pesquerías.
Universidade de A Coruña. Campus da Zapateira s/n. E-15071. A Coruña, Spain.
Tel. +34(981) 167000 ext. 2204 Fax. +34(981) 167065.
www.fismare.net/verdeprofundo





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