Re: [R] enhanced question / standardized coefficients

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Dewey
Subject Re: [R] enhanced question / standardized coefficients Dear Simon, In my opinion, standardized coefficients only offer the illusion of comparison for quantitative explanatory variables, since there's no deep reason that the standard deviation of one variable has the same meaning

[R] enhanced question / standardized coefficients

2007-02-07 Thread Simon P. Kempf
Hello, I would like to repost the question of Joerg: Hello everybody, a question that connect to the question of Frederik Karlsons about 'how to stand. betas' With the stand. betas i can compare the influence of the different explaning variables. What do i with the betas of factors? I

Re: [R] enhanced question / standardized coefficients

2007-02-07 Thread John Fox
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon P. Kempf Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:27 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] enhanced question / standardized coefficients Hello, I would like to repost

Re: [R] enhanced question / standardized coefficients

2007-02-07 Thread Brian S Cade
PROTECTED] 02/07/2007 07:49 AM To 'Simon P. Kempf' [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject Re: [R] enhanced question / standardized coefficients Dear Simon, In my opinion, standardized coefficients only offer the illusion of comparison for quantitative explanatory variables, since