Hi, I have 6 career types, represented as a factor in R, coded from 1 to 6. I need to use the effect coding (also known as deviation coding) which is normally done by contr.sum, e.g.
contrasts(career) <- contr.sum(6) However, this results in the 6th category being the reference, that is being coded as -1: $contrasts [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 6 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 In fact, I need number 1 to be the reference. How do I achieve that? Thank you. Regards, Maxim -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Setting-the-desired-reference-category-with-contr-sum-tp4645150.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
