[R] R versus SAS: lm performance
Peter Dalgaard
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue May 11 15:13:51 CEST 2004
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > Hmm. Shouldn't be all that much faster, but it will produce the Type I
> > SS as you go along, whereas R probably wants to fit the 15 different
> > models.
>
> Nope, R can read off the Type I SSQs from the QR decomposition so only one
> fit is done. (Effectively you remove the effect of one column at a time,
> and you get the change in residual/regression SSq as a side effect. Take
> a look at anova.lm, which just aggregates squared effects over terms.)
OK, thanks.
> > I'm still surprised that R/S-PLUS manages to use a full 15 minutes on
> > a single response variable. It might be due to the singularities --
> > the SAS code indicated that there was a nesting issue with the "A"
> > factor in the last 4-factor interaction. If so, a reformulation of the
> > model might help.
>
> I think we need to understand this better. My guess (but only a guess) is
> that the model matrix has very many columns and is highly singular. If
> the singularity is by design, a reformulation will help.
It's certainly not a completely balanced factorial:
1344=2*2*2*2*2*2*3*7
so it could be one in several way, but not with a main effects with 4 DF.
An even less well-founded guess is that it might help to replace the
last term with interaction(Ar,Ba,Ti,Pr,drop=TRUE) (if I remembered the
names correctly).
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