Thanks Jose, but I doubt that the author of these analysis used such a
"complex" approach.

Arnaud


2012/12/13 Jose Iparraguirre <jose.iparragui...@ageuk.org.uk>

>  Sorry, Arnaud, I misinterpreted the question.****
>
> There isn’t a built-in option in lm or glm to run pairwise deletion, but
> in the ‘psych’ package you can run regressions on covariance matrices
> rather than on raw data. So, first, you can obtain a covariance matrix by
> cov() with the option use="pairwise.complete.obs" –or within ‘psych’,
> set.cor(…,use="pairwise"), which will give you the correlations pairwise,
> and then you use the function mat.regress using the pairwise matrix.****
>
> Hope this helps,****
>
> ** **
>
> José ****
>
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>
> *From:* Arnaud Mosnier [mailto:a.mosn...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 13 December 2012 16:13
> *To:* Jose Iparraguirre
> *Cc:* r-help@r-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [R] Pairwise deletion in a linear regression and in a GLM ?
> ****
>
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>
> Hi Jose,
>
> To my perception na.omit is different from a pairwise deletion.
> With na.omit, you omit totally that case if there is a missing value for
> one of the variable you consider in the model.
> In the pairwise deletion, the case with some missing value is kept and
> values that are not missing are used in the statistics calculations.
>
> However, I agree that pairwise deletion is not good practice (so it would
> be surprising that it is the default in lm !!).
> I just when to be able to recalculate the statistics given in this thesis.
>
> Arnaud
>
>   ****
>
> ** **
>
> 2012/12/13 Jose Iparraguirre <jose.iparragui...@ageuk.org.uk>****
>
> Hi Arnaud,
>
> A quick help search of lm or glm tells you that 'the "factory-fresh"
> default is na.omit'.
> If you then look up 'na.omit', you'll read that it 'returns the object
> with incomplete cases removed'.
> So, pairwise deletion is the default option in both lm and glm.
>
> On a related note, it goes without saying that pairwise deletion is not
> good practice in most cases, and that R has ways to impute these missing
> cases depending on assumptions regarding the cause or nature of their
> missingness.
>
> Regards,
>
> José
>
>
> José Iparraguirre
> Chief Economist
> Age UK****
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Arnaud Mosnier
> Sent: 13 December 2012 15:40
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Pairwise deletion in a linear regression and in a GLM ?
>
> Dear useRs,
>
> In a thesis, I found a mention of the use of pairwise deletion in linear
> regression and GLM (binomial family).
> The author said that he has used R to do the statistics, but I did not find
> the option allowing pairwise deletion in both lm and glm functions. Is
> there somewhere a package allowing that ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnaud****
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