Hello - I have been using GLMNET of the following form to predict multinomial logistic / class dependent variables:
mglmnet=glmnet(xxb,yb ,alpha=ty,dfmax=dfm, family="multinomial",standardize=FALSE) I am using both continuous and categorical variables as predictors, and am using sparse.model.matrix to code my x's into a matrix. This is changing an example categorical variable whose original name / values is {V1 = "1" or "2" or "3"} into two recoded variables {V12= "1" or "0" and V13 = "1" or "0"}. As i am cycling through different penalties, i would like to either have both recoded variables included or both excluded, but not one included - and can't figure out how to make that work. I tried changing the "type.multinomial" option, as that looks like this option should do what i want, but can't get it to work (maybe the difference in recoded variable names is driving this). To summarize, for categorical variables, i would like to hierarchically constrain inclusion / exclusion of recoded variables in the model - either all of the recoded variables from the same original categorical variable are in, or all are out. Thanks! Kevin This e-mail message contains information that may be non...{{dropped:7}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.