[Rd] contrasts
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed May 7 17:12:14 MEST 2003
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Torsten Hothorn wrote:
> I spent some time now trying to understand how functions for the
> computation of contrasts
>
> contr.foo(n, contrasts=TRUE)
>
> passed to model.matrix are called. My problem is
> that for the computation of some contrasts one needs `n' to be the number
> of observations at each level of the factor of interest and for others the
> number of levels is sufficient. For example, `contr.treatment' has code
> for handling vector valued `n' (and ?contrasts states that `n' may be a vector).
>
> Where can I find the condition under which `n = nlevel(x)' or `n =
> table(x)' or how can I define what I would like to see?
>From model.matrix, only the number of levels is passed: src/main/model.c
line 1626 (in R-devel and probably also 1.7.0).
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