[R] question about 'coef' method and fitted_value calculation
Berton Gunter
gunter.berton at gene.com
Mon Aug 21 23:51:10 CEST 2006
I'm ignorant about this, so no answer. But as you seem interested in
coefficient shrinkage, have you tried the lars or lasso2 package?
-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process." - George E. P. Box
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> Subject: [R] question about 'coef' method and fitted_value calculation
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to calculate the fitted values using a ridge model
> (lm.ridge(), MASS library). Since the predict() does not work
> for lm.ridge
> object, I want to get the fitted_value from the coefficients
> information.
> The following are the codes I use:
>
> fit = lm.ridge(myY~myX,lambda=lamb,scales=F,coef=T)
> coeff = fit$coef
>
> However, it seems that "coeff" (or "fit$coef") is not really the
> coefficients matrix. From the manual, "Note that these are not on the
> original scale and are for use by the 'coef' method...".
>
> Could anyone please point out what is the 'coef' method the manual
> mentioned, and how should I get the fitted value? I have tried simple
> multiplication of the coeff and my X matrix ("coeff%*%X").
> But the results
> seems to be in the wrong scale.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeny
>
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