Re: [R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided

2018-09-17 Thread Fox, John
Dear Hamed, > -Original Message- > From: Hamed Ha [mailto:hamedhas...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 3:56 AM > To: Fox, John > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided > > H i John, > &g

Re: [R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided

2018-09-17 Thread Hamed Ha
you can't expect numerically stable results. I suppose that > lm.wfit() could check for 0 weights to a tolerance rather than exactly. > > John > > > -Original Message- > > From: Hamed Ha [mailto:hamedhas...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018

Re: [R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided

2018-09-14 Thread Fox, John
34 PM > To: Fox, John > Subject: Re: [R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided > > Hi John, > > Thank you for your reply. > > I agree that the small weights are the potential source of the instability in > the > result. I also suspected that there are some

Re: [R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided

2018-09-14 Thread Fox, John
ay, September 11, 2018 8:39 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided > > Dear R Help Team. > > I get some weird results when I use the lm function with weight. The issue can > be reproduced by the example below: > >

[R] Problem with lm.resid() when weights are provided

2018-09-11 Thread Hamed Ha
Dear R Help Team. I get some weird results when I use the lm function with weight. The issue can be reproduced by the example below: The input data is (weights are intentionally designed to reflect some structures in the data) > df y x weight 1.51156139 0.55209240 2.117337e-34 -0.63653132