Liaw, Andy schrieb:
>Ordinal variables should be stored as ordered factors in R. See ?ordered. > thnk`s for your reply. I tried to store as ordered factors var <- as.ordered(var2) but if I am calling the lm(dependent~var) I get a long list of values. If I call var <- as.numeric(var2) lm(dependent~var) then I get: Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -0.93563 0.01378 0.16272 0.25546 0.57862 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 1.79513 0.02787 64.412 < 2e-16 *** mean -0.28102 0.05993 -4.689 4.66e-06 *** the SPSS call and Result is: SPSS (13) Analyse General Linear Model Univariate Dependent Variable -> Dependent Fixed Factors -> var2 OK Tests of Between-Subjects Effects Dependent Variable: dependent | --------------- | ------------------------- | --- | ------------- | -------- | ---- | | Source | Type III Sum of Squares | df | Mean Square | F | Sig. | | --------------- | ------------------------- | --- | ------------- | -------- | ---- | | Corrected Model | 11,269(a) | 41 | ,275 | 1,668 | ,012 | | --------------- | ------------------------- | --- | ------------- | -------- | ---- | | Intercept | 361,340 | 1 | 361,340 | 2193,088 | ,000 | | --------------- | ----------------------- | --- | ----------- | -------- | ---- | | var2 | 11,269 | 41 | ,275 | 1,668 | ,012 | | --------------- | ----------------------- | --- | ----------- | -------- | ---- | | Error | 31,964 | 194 | ,165 | | | | --------------- | ----------------------- | --- | ----------- | -------- | ---- | | Total | 773,000 | 236 | | | | | --------------- | ----------------------- | --- | ----------- | -------- | ---- | | Corrected Total | 43,233 | 235 | | | | | --------------- | ----------------------- | --- | ----------- | -------- | ---- | a R Squared = ,261 (Adjusted R Squared = ,104) Maybe anybody is able to show me the difference between SPSS and R calls because the P value ic complete different The url for the Data (if anybody would like to try) http://biostatistic.de/temp/testr.csv Regards Knut ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html