bump. would like to know the answer too. I am about using nnet--multinom to estimate a multinomial logit model, but are not sure if this function handles categorical data input.
Thanks for any help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:24 PM Subject: [R] formatting data to be analysed using multinomial logistic regression (nnet) > > > I am looking into using the multinomial logistic regression option in the > nnet library and have two questions about formatting the data. > > 1. Can data be analysed in the following format or does it need to be > transformed into count data, such as the housing data in MASS? > > Id Crime paranoia hallucinate toc disorg crimhist age > 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 25 > 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 37 > 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 42 > 4 3 0 0 0 0 1 25 > 5 2 1 0 1 0 0 49 > > > 2. Can a ratio variable such as $age be included into a model, such as > the one below? > > > crimepred <- glm (crime ~ paranoia + hallucinate + toc + crimhist, > family > = poisson, data = mht ) > > > Any assistance with the above is appreciated, > > > regards > > Bob Green > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
