Re: [R] Polynomial regression help

2008-08-18 Thread Rolf Turner
On 19/08/2008, at 12:55 PM, ascentnet wrote: I have a simple X, Y data frame that I am trying to run regression analysis on. The linear regression looks great, but when I use lm(formula = y ~ poly(x, degree = 5)) I get the same coeffecients. So for example if I use degree =3 my formula

[R] Polynomial regression help

2008-08-18 Thread ascentnet
I have a simple X, Y data frame that I am trying to run regression analysis on. The linear regression looks great, but when I use lm(formula = y ~ poly(x, degree = 5)) I get the same coeffecients. So for example if I use degree =3 my formula would look like y = 4.2 x^3 + 3.2x^2 + 2.1x + 1.0 and