Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-23 Thread meng
Many thanks for your detailed reply. I'll read your mail thoroughly. Thanks! At 2013-05-23 21:56:29,"Greg Snow" <538...@gmail.com> wrote: Meng, This really comes down to what question you are trying to answer. Before worrying about details of default contrasts and issues like that you

Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Snow
Meng, This really comes down to what question you are trying to answer. Before worrying about details of default contrasts and issues like that you first need to work out what is really the question of interest. The main difference between declaring a variable ordered or not is the default contr

Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-23 Thread PIKAL Petr
more experienced people around or some textbook. Regards Petr > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of meng > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 4:44 AM > To: Uwe Ligges > Cc: R help > Subject: Re: [R]

Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-22 Thread David Winsemius
On May 22, 2013, at 7:44 PM, meng wrote: > It's not homework. > I met this question during my practical work via R. > The boss is an expert of biology,but he doesn't know statistics.So I must > find the right method to this work. > Yes, you must. Unfortunately, the Rhelp mailing list is for pr

Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-22 Thread meng
It's not homework. I met this question during my practical work via R. The boss is an expert of biology,but he doesn't know statistics.So I must find the right method to this work. At 2013-05-22 17:30:34,"Uwe Ligges" wrote: > > >On 22.05.2013 07:09, meng wrote: >> Thanks. >> >> >> As

Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 22.05.2013 07:09, meng wrote: Thanks. As to the data " warpbreaks", if I want to analysis the impact of tension(L,M,H) on breaks, should I order the tension or not? No homework questions on this list, please ask your teacher. Best, Uwe Ligges Many thanks. At 2013-05

Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-21 Thread meng
Thanks. As to the data " warpbreaks", if I want to analysis the impact of tension(L,M,H) on breaks, should I order the tension or not? Many thanks. At 2013-05-21 20:55:18,"David Winsemius" wrote: > >On May 20, 2013, at 10:35 PM, meng wrote: > >> Hi all: >> If the explainary variab

Re: [R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-21 Thread David Winsemius
On May 20, 2013, at 10:35 PM, meng wrote: > Hi all: > If the explainary variables are ordinal,the result of regression is different > from > "unordered variables".But I can't understand the result of regression from > "ordered > variable". > > The data is warpbreaks,which belongs to R. > > If

[R] ordered and unordered variables

2013-05-20 Thread meng
Hi all: If the explainary variables are ordinal,the result of regression is different from "unordered variables".But I can't understand the result of regression from "ordered variable". The data is warpbreaks,which belongs to R. If I use the "unordered variable"(tension):Levels: L M H The res