Re: [R] Help on predict.lm

2012-03-27 Thread Nederjaard
Hello all, Thanks for all your replies. I have studied on it some more in the meantime, and found indeed out that what I was trying to do was not correct to begin with. Sorry to have wasted your time, but thanks for the comments. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/H

Re: [R] Help on predict.lm

2012-03-27 Thread Peter Ehlers
R tries hard to keep you from committing scientific abuse. As stated, your problem seems to me akin to 1. Given that a man's age can be modelled as a function of the grayness of his hair, 2. predict a man's age from the temperature in Barcelona. Your calibration relates 'abs' and 'conc'. No

Re: [R] Help on predict.lm

2012-03-27 Thread Bert Gunter
FORTUNE!!! -- Bert On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Peter Ehlers wrote: > > R tries hard to keep you from committing scientific abuse. > As stated, your problem seems to me akin to > > 1. Given that a man's age can be modelled as a function >   of the grayness of his hair, > 2. predict a man's a

Re: [R] Help on predict.lm

2012-03-27 Thread Peter Ehlers
R tries hard to keep you from committing scientific abuse. As stated, your problem seems to me akin to 1. Given that a man's age can be modelled as a function of the grayness of his hair, 2. predict a man's age from the temperature in Barcelona. Your calibration relates 'abs' and 'conc'. Now

Re: [R] Help on predict.lm

2012-03-27 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 27-03-2012, at 19:24, Nederjaard wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new here, but will try to be as specific and complete as possible. I'm > trying to use “lm“ to first estimate parameter values from a set of > calibration measurements, and then later to use those estimates to calculate > another set o

[R] Help on predict.lm

2012-03-27 Thread Nederjaard
Hello, I'm new here, but will try to be as specific and complete as possible. I'm trying to use “lm“ to first estimate parameter values from a set of calibration measurements, and then later to use those estimates to calculate another set of values with “predict.lm”. First I have a calib