> From: Nirmal Govind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks for your reply, Prof. Ripley. > > > And all of that is explained in the reference on the aov help page. > > Please do stop speculating and start reading. > > Well, the reason for speculation was cos I couldn't find any > details on > that help page... thanks for letting me know that the > reference explains > this... > > > AoV has nothing to do with coefficients. There is > dummy.coef to get > > uncoded coefficients, and there is options(contrasts=) to set the > > coding. > > Ok, I will try these... > > > Yes, you should read a lot more. Chapter 6 of Venables & Ripley > > (2002) > > and chapter 5 of Chambers & Hastie (1991) would be a good start. > > Oh, I most definitely should! :-) .. I guess I was hoping that such > details would be included in the help page for the function > or mentioned > in some R introduction or tutorial or so on the Documentation page.. > looks like that's not the case so I'll get a hold of the > books above... > > Thanks, > nirmal
It's unreasonable to expect stat software documentation to also serve as textbooks or reference books. What you have not learned in a course can not be made up just by reading help pages. That's not the purpose of help pages. Andy ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
