[R] lm diagnostics and qr (fwd)

2003-06-26 Thread Jean Eid
I have been struggling to find some informaation on what lm exactly does. I know it uses the QR decomp. However, I was recently faced with a somewhat badly scaled matrix and summary(lm) said Coefficients: ( 4 not defined because of singularities) does anyone know how lm chooses these 4

Re: [R] lm diagnostics and qr (fwd)

2003-06-26 Thread John Fox
Dear Jean, On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Jean Eid wrote: . . . My other question is on the regression diagnostics particularly plotting Cook's distance. what is the rule to decide on outliers. If I read the plot correctly, the labeled distances (vertical lines) are outliers. But I have gotten cook's

Re: [R] lm diagnostics and qr (fwd)

2003-06-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Jean Eid wrote: I have been struggling to find some informaation on what lm exactly does. I know it uses the QR decomp. However, I was recently faced with a somewhat badly scaled matrix and summary(lm) said Coefficients: ( 4 not defined because of singularities)

Re: [R] lm diagnostics and qr (fwd)

2003-06-26 Thread Simon Wood
I have been struggling to find some informaation on what lm exactly does. I know it uses the QR decomp. However, I was recently faced with a somewhat badly scaled matrix and summary(lm) said Coefficients: ( 4 not defined because of singularities) does anyone know how lm chooses these 4