On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> No doubt a question with a well-known answer, but I'm unfortunately
> not managing to find it readily ... !
>
> I have a quantitative variable Y and a 4-level ordered factor A
> (with very unequal numbers at the different levels, by the way).
>
> The command
>
> lm(Y ~ A)
>
> returns (amongst other stuff) an intercept, and coefficients
> A.L, A.Q and A.C for the Linear, Quadratic and Cubic effects.
>
> I'm trying to verify how R computes A.L, A.Q and A.C (equivalently,
> and preferably, what are the definitions of these that correspond
> to how R computes them). I haven't touched whatever R's default
> settings may be for this operation.
>
> Can some kind soul enlighten me?
?contr.poly, as the default contrasts set by options("contrasts") specify
that for ordered factors. For more details, including how R uses
contrasts, see Chapter 6 of MASS (any edition).
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