Re: [R] Need to find most likely betas

2007-02-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:58 -0500, Pierre Lapointe wrote: Hello, I have a particular situation where a single wrong observation is impacting the results of a traditional regression to the point that betas become unreliable. I need a way to calculate the most likely betas. Here's an

Re: [R] Need to find most likely betas

2007-02-19 Thread Pierre Lapointe
Hi Mark, In my example, there has been a regime change at time 25 and I'd like to find a way to discover 1- what has changed and 2- when it did. The problem is all that is observed are the x and y values. unknownbetas are... unknown. If you look at x and y, you can't really tell something has

Re: [R] Need to find most likely betas

2007-02-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
Pierre, Unfortunately, I don't have much in the way of hands on experience with these, but conceptually, latent variable analysis/SEM methods seem like they might be apropos. If so, John Fox' SEM package might be of value here. More information here: