Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread B77S
This is the output of dput(your data) structure(list(Ca = c(NA, NA, 24.4, NA, 21.4, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 28, 32, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 34.7, NA, 42.5, NA, 26, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 0.6, 21.4, NA, 48.3, 63.5

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread B77S
There is only one row with a complete set of observations; I think lm() is throwing out the rest. Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, John C Frain wrote: > >> As far as I know if there is an NA in any variable in an observation the >> default is to drop the entire observation. Thus the

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Ted Harding
On 09-Nov-11 19:39:54, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, John C Frain wrote: > >> As far as I know if there is an NA in any variable in an >> observation the default is to drop the entire observation. >> Thus there are no observations in your calculation > > John, > > Hadn't realized th

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, John C Frain wrote: As far as I know if there is an NA in any variable in an observation the default is to drop the entire observation. Thus there are no observations in your calculation John, Hadn't realized that. I know there are NA's in other data frames that yield mo

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Marc Schwartz wrote: # 'DF' is the result of copying your data above from the # clipboard on OSX DF <- read.table(pipe("pbpaste"), header = TRUE) Marc, Oh? I don't do Apple so there's no OSX here. After removing incomplete records (any records with NA values) which is

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread John C Frain
As far as I know if there is an NA in any variable in an observation the default is to drop the entire observation. Thus there are no observations in your calculation Best Regards John On 9 November 2011 19:17, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Daniel Nordlund wrote: > >> I would guess

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Daniel Nordlund wrote: I would guess that there is something problematic with the how the data frame is structured relative to what lm() is expecting. Dan, I was not comfortable with my explanation, but the formula (and

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Daniel Nordlund wrote: > >> I would guess that there is something problematic with the how the data >> frame is structured relative to what lm() is expecting. > > Dan, > > I was not comfortable with my explanation, but the

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Daniel Nordlund wrote: I would guess that there is something problematic with the how the data frame is structured relative to what lm() is expecting. Dan, I was not comfortable with my explanation, but the formula (and data frame) was equivalent to those of the other 8

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Daniel Nordlund
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Rich Shepard > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:42 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary >

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Daniel Nordlund
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Rich Shepard > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:05 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary > &g

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, David Winsemius wrote: I don't see a data= argument specified, so you are telling lm() that your workspace has individual vectors by those names in the formula. That is not what is implied by hte rest of your message. David, That's because I attached the data frame befor

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I would appreciate pointers on what I should read to understand this output: summary(lm(TDS ~ Cond + Ca + Cl + Mg + Na + SO4)) I don't see a data= argument specified, so you are telling lm() that your workspace has individual vectors by tho

Re: [R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread B77S
Please see ?dput use dput(your data) and paste the output into a reply, thanks. This way we know what you are working with. Rich Shepard wrote: > > I would appreciate pointers on what I should read to understand this > output: > > summary(lm(TDS ~ Cond + Ca + Cl + Mg + Na + SO4)) > > Ca

[R] Interpreting Multiple Linear Regression Summary

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Shepard
I would appreciate pointers on what I should read to understand this output: summary(lm(TDS ~ Cond + Ca + Cl + Mg + Na + SO4)) Call: lm(formula = TDS ~ Cond + Ca + Cl + Mg + Na + SO4) Residuals: ALL 1 residuals are 0: no residual degrees of freedom! Coefficients: (6 not defined because of s