Re: [R] error message "system is computationally singular" under mlogit

2014-01-29 Thread Franckx Laurent
ne of them equal to zero. Cheers Laurent -Original Message- From: Bert Gunter [mailto:gunter.ber...@gene.com] Sent: woensdag 29 januari 2014 16:43 To: Franckx Laurent Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] error message "system is computationally singular" under mlogit Advic

Re: [R] error message "system is computationally singular" under mlogit

2014-01-29 Thread Bert Gunter
Advice: I would guess that you are overfitting. Simplify your model. Drop some of the variables.You probably have (near) linear dependencies in your design matrix. -- Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowled

[R] error message "system is computationally singular" under mlogit

2014-01-29 Thread Franckx Laurent
Dear all, I am trying to estimate a multinomial logit model with mlogit. The data I use for the estimation have the following format (in the full data set, there are many more explanatory variables, but I omit them here for the sake of simplicity): > head(sample) choice cl_vint_com