I have not clearly stated my question. I would like to obtain the point estimate and SE (or point estimate and 95% CI) of a linear combination of the the independent variables included in my regression model. In a simple model having a single categorical variable that has two levels (Group1 and Group2) obtaining the estimate and its SE (or the estimate and a 95% CI) requires knowing the betas produced by the model, the SEs of the betas (which are easily obtained) along with the variance covariance of the estimates. I assume that the variance covariance matrix can be obtained but working the the matrix is a real pain. I am looking for a SIMPLE way to get the point estimate and its SE without having to slog though getting all the estimates, their SEs manually adding them together and including the covariances. For example if my model is
rate = group and group has the value 1, I want: beta rate = beta intercept + beta group variance rate = variance intercept + variance group + 2*covariance (intercept,group) I suspect I can do this calculation manually, but I would really like to find a way that R will do the computation for me. My regression model is: fit1 <- glm(HGE ~ Group,family=quasipoisson(link="log"), data=dataForR,offset=logFU) In SAS this can be accomplished using estimate statements; I suspect that is an R analogue of the SAS estimate statement, but I don't know that the analogue is . Thank you, John Particular thanks are due to Peter Dalgaard, Berwin Turlach, and Mark Leeds who responded to my original, not well formulated posting. Thank you, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) ________________________________ From: peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5:07 AM To: Berwin A Turlach <berwin.turl...@gmail.com> Cc: Sorkin, John <jsor...@som.umaryland.edu>; r-help@r-project.org (r-help@r-project.org) <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] I am struggling with contrasts Yes. Contrasts, by definition, represents between-group differences, so cannot yield individual group levels. The closest you get is that the _intercept_ is the level of the base group in treatment contrasts, and relevel() will allow you to change the base level. -pd > On 10 Mar 2020, at 04:06 , Berwin A Turlach <berwin.turl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > G'day John, > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 01:42:46 +0000 > "Sorkin, John" <jsor...@som.umaryland.edu> wrote: > >> I am running a Poisson regression with a single outcome variable, >> HGE, and a single independent variable, a factor, Group which can be >> one of two values, Group1, or Group2. I am trying to define contrasts >> that will give me the values of my outcome variable (HGE) when >> group=Group1 and when group=Group2. > > Not sure what you mean, but I am suspecting you are after this output: > > R> fit0 <- glm(HGE ~ Group - 1,family=poisson,data=dataForR,offset=logFU) > R> summary(fit0) > > Cheers, > > Berwin > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-help&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4b9ea7f815e0494abf0908d7c4d2770c%7C717009a620de461a88940312a395cac9%7C0%7C0%7C637194280543093844&sdata=QFyKBzxZfkXAjASSUYsSnMJ1CiZIjXDK6JEgKHrV5vg%3D&reserved=0 > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.R-project.org%2Fposting-guide.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4b9ea7f815e0494abf0908d7c4d2770c%7C717009a620de461a88940312a395cac9%7C0%7C0%7C637194280543093844&sdata=pf%2BQVOSaoGq5HwJ1QjMawCArFC1yjpG9yL%2Fs5dv5wJw%3D&reserved=0 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.