Re: [R] Discriminant analysis

2005-08-05 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 11:59 PM 8/4/2005, C NL wrote: >Hi, > > I'm a newbie in R and don't much aobut all the >modules and their capabilities, but I'm interested in >solving a problem about a discriminant analysis done >with SPSS tool. The thing is that I would like to make >a discrimant analysis similar to th

Re: [R] CART analysis

2005-07-26 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
by Therneau and Atkinson. If you combine that with Andy Liaw's "randomForest", you have a pretty potent set of tools. If you really want "CART", you need to contact Salford Systems for their implementation and pay their very expensive licensing fees. Dr. Marc R Feldesman

Re: [R] Why am I not getting "some" r-help posts?

2005-01-28 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 01:59 PM 1/28/2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >"Marc R. Feldesman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At the risk of being flamed for mortal stupidity, I'm trying to figure >> out what could have possibly changed (at my end almost certainly) that >> make

[R] Why am I not getting "some" r-help posts?

2005-01-28 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
se Eudora, Thunderbird, or webmail clients to read/respond to them. Thanks for any help and/or suggestions for solving this mystery. Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Emeritus Anthropology Department - Portland State University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] lda()

2004-07-12 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 08:45 AM 7/12/2004, marzban wrote: > >Hello, > >For a simple problem with 1 predictor (x) and 2 classes (0 and 1), the >linear discriminant function should be something like > > 2(mu_0 - mu_1)/var x+x-independent-terms > >where var is the common variance. > >Question 1: Why does lda() r

Re: [R] naive question

2004-06-29 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
s, this is a major nuisance. > Feel free to contribute to the project. Whining and complaining won't get you anywhere. SAS *is* faster at I/O. So what? Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Emeritus Anthropology Department - Portland State University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EM

Re: [R] extracting p-value of aov F-statistic

2004-06-14 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 10:11 AM 6/14/2004, Sven Hartenstein wrote: >Hi, > >I would like to extract the p-value of the F-statistic of a aov-object's >summary. > >Getting the p-value is so easy with t-tests (t.test(g1, y = g2, >var.equal = FALSE)$p.value), but I couldn't find anything like that for >ANOVAs. > >Any help

Re: [R] summary.lm

2004-05-30 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 12:00 PM 5/30/2004, Roger D. Peng wrote: >Is it possible you have a locally modified version of >summary.lm() lying around. Here are the first few lines of >summary.lm() in R 1.9.0: > That was the problem. But since I've never even looked at summary.lm until the past few days when this error

[R] summary.lm

2004-05-30 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
12 language R I'd be perfectly happy to be straightened out here. Thanks. Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Emeritus Anthropology Department - Portland State University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax:503-725-3905 "Don't knock on my door i

Re: [R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-02 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 05:16 AM 4/2/2004, Carlisle Thacker watched in amazement as electrons turned into magical things called words: >Marc, > >It is very difficult for the eye to distinguish even 25 symbols or 25 >colors on the same plot. I find that my brain tends to saturate at 5 of >each, and using 5 symbols eac

[R] Plot symbols for more than 25 groups

2004-04-01 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
Is there any effective way to get distinct geometric plotting symbols and colors for plots involving more than 25 groups? Thanks. Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Emeritus Anthropology Department - Portland State University email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax

Re: [R] Time for Usenet R Group?

2004-03-17 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 12:28 PM 3/17/2004, Ed L Cashin wrote: I hope this response isn't indicative of the speed with which gmane posts messages. I think this entire thread was more than 7 or 8 months ago, possibly longer. >"Roger D. Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Marc R

Re: [R] predict.lda problem with posterior probabilities

2004-01-23 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 04:23 AM 1/23/2004, Mike White wrote: >With predict.lda the posterior probabilities only relate to the existing >Class definitions. This is fine for Class definitions like gender but it is >a problem when new data does not necessarily belong to an existing Class. >Is there a classification meth

RE: [R] evaluation of discriminant functions+multivariate homosce dasticity

2004-01-21 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 07:58 AM 1/21/2004, Dave Andrae wrote: >I seem to remember, from a course in which I used SPSS for LDA, that >Box's M is an ultra-sensitive test as well and that in almost all >practical applications it's not useful, so Prof. Ripley's comments >apply to that test, too. Professor Ripley is quite

Re: [R] Error running LDA

2003-12-19 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 06:13 PM 12/19/2003, Yun-Fang Juan wrote: >Hi, >I try to run the linear discriminant analysis using the following command >but got an error like the following. >lda1 <- lda(retention ~ . , data=RetentionDF40[1:1,]); > What error did you get? Did you read the help file for lda? What version

Re: [R] r-question

2003-07-12 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 10:09 PM 7/12/2003, dg gdf wrote: >I am student in Iran(IUT) that work on R software as >my project. I need to some data frames in version >1.7.0, but these are not available. please help me. > >__ It isn't clear exactly what help you need. We are mos

Re: [R] Time for Usenet R Group?

2003-05-31 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 07:17 AM 5/30/2003, Mike Prager wrote: >I probably shouldn't suggest this, because I can't volunteer to implement >it. However, I bring it up in the hopes that if (1) others agree and (2) >the R core group think it a good idea that a suitable volunteer will come >forward. > >I am finding that t

Re: [R] round() seems inconsistent when rounding 5s

2003-03-15 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
entation of 1.5 might be very different from what you think it is. If you've done any programming at all, this is one of the first lessons you learn about "real" numbers and computers. Dr. Marc R. Feldesman Professor and Chairman Emeritus Anthropology Department - Portland State

Re: [R] LDA newbie question

2003-02-01 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 01:10 PM 2/1/2003, Roland Goecke wrote: >But what is the proportion of trace? > Is the proportion of variance explained by each successive discriminant. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help

Re: [R] LDA newbie question

2003-02-01 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
At 01:10 PM 2/1/2003, Roland Goecke wrote: >Hi, >Is there a simple way to get the discriminant score or do I have to >manually multiply the coefficients with the data? predict.lda will generate an object with a scores component, among other things. Try ?predict.lda ___

Re: [R] Tutorials?

2003-01-03 Thread Marc R. Feldesman
An Introduction to R, The R Core Team An Introduction to Statistics with R, Peter Dalgaard Modern Applied Statistics with S, W.N. Venables and B.D. Ripley, 4th Edition. And many others with links on http://cran.r-project.org/ under "Contributed|Documentation"