[R] Coding methods for factors

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Lynch
Is there a way in R to control how factors are coded? It looks like reference cell coding is used by default. Is there a way to get effects coding? (I could just set up the factor dummy variables as I wish and use lm, but I'm wondering if there is a better way.) Thanks, --Paul

Re: [R] Brown-Forsythe F* Statistic

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Lynch
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[R] Brown-Forsythe F* Statistic

2008-04-15 Thread Paul Lynch
e for calculating the Brown-Forsythe F*? 2) If not, what do people use for checking the results of a (one-way) ANOVA when there is non-normality as well as non-constant variances? Thanks, --Paul -- Paul Lynch Aquilent, Inc. National Library of Medicine (Contr

[R] Making a data frame into a factor ?

2008-04-15 Thread Paul Lynch
e the factor and the vector of values. Thanks in advance, -- Paul Lynch Aquilent, Inc. National Library of Medicine (Contractor) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

[R] Formula for whether hat value is influential?

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Lynch
I was wondering if someone might be able to tell me what formula R's influence.measures function uses for determining whether the hat value it computes is influential (i.e., the true/false value in the "hat" column of the returned is.inf data frame). The reason I'm asking is that its results disag

[R] md5 hash is wrong for 2.6.2 (Windows)

2008-02-09 Thread Paul Lynch
d fix it?) Thanks, --Paul p.s. Given that two CRAN servers have the bad value, I'm guessing it's safe to install. It installed okay is seems to be running fine. -- Paul Lynch Aquilent, Inc. National Library of Medicine (Contractor)