[R] Interactions in 'MatchBalance' of the package 'Matching'

2009-11-23 Thread anna0102

Hello together,
In the package 'Matching' there ist a possibility to determine balance
statistics after Matching with the function 'MatchBalance'.
In this function there has a formula 'formul' to be given.
I'm wondering how I can implement all two-way interactions, without
specifying them explicitly. For example in logistic regression you can write
y ~ (x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 + ...)^2 and R includes all two-way
interactions. Is there such a possibility in 'MatchBalance', too?
(Unfortunately, with the notation of logistic regression it doesn't work and
I can't find an alternative in the help).

Thank you very much in advance!
Anna
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Re: [R] Handle lot of variables - Regression

2009-10-15 Thread anna0102

Thank you very much! Now it works!
I'm aware of the fact, that practically seen it's maybe nonsense to do
something like this. But I have to do a Monte Carlo simulation where I want
to determine some aspects... It's a complicated story, but a logistic
regression (stepwise or not) is a basis for my analysis and I want to try
both. 
Anna


Dieter Menne wrote:
 
 
 
 anna0102 wrote:
 
 I've got a data set (e.g. named Data) which contains a lot of variables,
 for example: s1, s2, ..., s50
 
 My first question is:
 It is possible to do this: Data$s1
 But is it also possible to do something like this: Data$s1:s50 (I've
 tried a lot of versions of those without a 
 result)
 
 
 Use the [] notation. For example
 
 Data[,c(s1,s2,s3)]
 
 or even better
 
 Data[,grep(s.*,names(a),value=TRUE)]
 
 
 
 anna0102 wrote:
 
 I want to do a stepwise logistic regression. For this purpose I use the
 following procedures:
 result-glm(...)
 step(result, direction=forward)
 
 Now the problem I have, is, that I have to include all my 50 variables
 (s1-s50), but I don't want to write them all down like y~s1+s2+s3+s4...
 (furthermore it has to be implemented in a loop, so I really need it).
 
 
 Construct the formula dynamically. But please, start with only 3 or 4
 variables and try if it work. Sometimes deep inside functions things can
 go wrong with this method, requiring Ripley's game-like workarounds. See
 
 http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/16599.html
 
 
 a=data.frame(s=1:10,s2=1:10,s4=1:10)
 form = paste(z~,grep(s.*,names(a),value=TRUE),collapse=+)
 glm(form,)
 
 And be aware of the nonsense you can (replace by will certainly) get with
 stepwise regression and so many parameters. If I were to be treated by a
 cure created by stepwise regression, I would prefer voodoo.
 
 Search for Harrell stepwise read Frank's well justified soapboxes.
 
 Dieter
 
 

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[R] Handle lot of variables - Regression

2009-10-14 Thread anna0102

Hey,

I've got a data set (e.g. named Data) which contains a lot of variables, for
example: s1, s2, ..., s50

My first question is:
It is possible to do this: Data$s1
But is it also possible to do something like this: Data$s1:s50 (I've tried a
lot of versions of those without a result)

My second question:
I want to do a stepwise logistic regression. For this purpose I use the
following procedures:
result-glm(...)
step(result, direction=forward)

Now the problem I have, is, that I have to include all my 50 variables
(s1-s50), but I don't want to write them all down like y~s1+s2+s3+s4...
(furthermore it has to be implemented in a loop, so I really need it).
I've tried do store the 50 variables in a list (e.g. list[[1]]) and tried
this:
result-glm(y ~ list[[1]], ...)
This works! But if I try to do it stepwise
result2-step(result)
I always get the same results as from glm without a stepwise approach. So
obviously R can't handle this if you put a list in.
How can I make this work?

Thanks in advance,
Anna

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