Re: [R] Ordinal Independent Variables

2006-05-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 22 May 2006, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: When I run lrm from the Design package, I get a warning about contrasts when I include an ordinal variable: Warning message: Variable ordfac is an ordered factor. You should set

Re: [R] Ordinal Independent Variables

2006-05-23 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: When I run lrm from the Design package, I get a warning about contrasts when I include an ordinal variable: Warning message: Variable ordfac is an ordered factor. You should set

[R] Ordinal Independent Variables

2006-05-22 Thread Rick Bilonick
When I run lrm from the Design package, I get a warning about contrasts when I include an ordinal variable: Warning message: Variable ordfac is an ordered factor. You should set options(contrasts=c(contr.treatment,contr.treatment)) or Design will not work properly. in: Design(eval(m,

Re: [R] Ordinal Independent Variables

2006-05-22 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Rick Bilonick wrote: When I run lrm from the Design package, I get a warning about contrasts when I include an ordinal variable: Warning message: Variable ordfac is an ordered factor. You should set options(contrasts=c(contr.treatment,contr.treatment)) or Design will not work properly.