Re: [R] How to ignore data

2011-02-16 Thread agent dunham
Hi, I have tried what you suggest here, and it seems not to work, can you help me? I want to do a lm regression, some of the variables are going to be affected with log, I would like not no take into account those rows which imply doing log(0) for just one variable I have done the following bu

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Steve Sidney wrote: Oh dear oh dear!!! another arrogant statistician/scientist One asks for help and instead one gets an ear full!!! we're statisticians. we love data. we hate seeing it go to waste. ev

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Sidney
Firstly apologies that I didn't see Ben's original response, thanks. (Found that I had my subscription to the list disabled, so only received mails to my address directly.) Also I shouldn't have had the 'knee-jerk' re-action that I did and should have followed Bert's advice by not replying, bu

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2010-12-13 11:36, Steve Sidney wrote: Oh dear oh dear!!! another arrogant statistician/scientist One asks for help and instead one gets an ear full!!! So much for the much vaunted helpful R community. But thanks anyway, I guess you were trying Steve Ouch!! I didn't offer advice e

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Steve Sidney wrote: > Oh dear oh dear!!! another arrogant statistician/scientist > > One asks for help and instead one gets an ear full!!! > > So much for the much vaunted helpful R community. > > But thanks anyway, I guess you were trying Steve, we're

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Ben Bolker
Steve Sidney mweb.co.za> writes: > > Oh dear oh dear!!! another arrogant statistician/scientist > > One asks for help and instead one gets an ear full!!! > > So much for the much vaunted helpful R community. > > But thanks anyway, I guess you were trying > > Steve > I know I shoul

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Sidney
Oh dear oh dear!!! another arrogant statistician/scientist One asks for help and instead one gets an ear full!!! So much for the much vaunted helpful R community. But thanks anyway, I guess you were trying Steve On 2010/12/13 08:17 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: Inline below. -- Bert On Mon

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Bert Gunter
Inline below. -- Bert On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Steve Sidney wrote: > Thanks for the questions. > > 1) The data represents micro-organism counts and a count of zero in  this > case is highly unlikely given the info we have; including the other > participants. ?? Censoring or an experiment

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Sidney
Thanks for the comments Please see my reply to Stavros - the counts represent organisms and btw both mean and the median are virtually unaffected by the removal of these valuse. Furthermore, experience rather than statistics indicates that these values are in fact gross errors and as you of

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Sidney
Thanks for the questions. 1) The data represents micro-organism counts and a count of zero in this case is highly unlikely given the info we have; including the other participants. 2) The data is submitted in duplicate and then a standardised sum and difference is established and is used to c

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Bert Gunter
>> >> Values to be ignored >> >> 0 - zero and 1 this is in addition to NA (null) >> >> The reason is that I need to use the log10 of the values when performing >> the calculation. >> >> Currently I hand massage the data set, about a 100 values, of which less >> than 5 to 10 are in this category. >>

Re: [R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Ben Bolker
Steve Sidney mweb.co.za> writes: > > Dear list > > I have quite a small data set in which I need to have the following > values ignored - not used when performing an analysis but they need to > be included later in the report that I write. > > Can anyone help with a suggestion as to how this

[R] How to ignore data

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Sidney
Dear list I have quite a small data set in which I need to have the following values ignored - not used when performing an analysis but they need to be included later in the report that I write. Can anyone help with a suggestion as to how this can be accomplished Values to be ignored 0 - ze