[R] Functions in R like lincom and nlcom of Stata

[ronggui]

There is function for linear combination in car package as well.

Best
Ronggui

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Robinson
<A.Robinson at ms.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> estimable in the gmodels package provides point estimates, standard
> errors and confidence intervals for arbitrary linear combinations of
> model parameters.  I don't know for non-linear combinations, though.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:33:12PM -0600, Stas Kolenikov wrote:
>> Those commands provide point estimates, standard errors and confidence
>> intervals based on linear combination of parameters or
>> linearization/delta-method, respectively. R's contrasts appear to be
>> limited to a single factor and combinations that sum up to zero.
>>
>> I am too so used to this Stata's concept, I now think it's odd R does
>> not seem to have it readily identifiable in two-three search commands.
>> And I would not believe R does not have this functionality, it must be
>> hiding somewhere! :))
>>
>> On 12/13/08, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >  On Dec 12, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Marc Mar? Dell'Olmo wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > > Hello all,
>> > >
>> > > Does anyone know if there exists any function in R that resembles the
>> > > "lincom" and "nlcom" of STATA?. These functions computes point
>> > > estimates, standard errors, significance levels, confidence intervals,
>> > > etc. for linear and non linear combinations of previous estimated
>> > > parameters. Down here you've got links to descriptions of the
>> > > functions of STATA
>> > >
>> > > nlcom:
>> > > http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?nlcom
>> > > lincom:
>> > > http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?lincom
>> > >
>> >
>> >  I did not find a description of the mathematical operations that let me
>> > understand exactly what lincom is doing, but suspect that you should be
>> > looking at how R handles contrasts. The help pages reference ch 2 of
>> > "Statistical Models in S". The search at the console prompt would be:
>> >
>> >  ?C
>> >  ?contrasts
>> >  ?se.contrast
>> >  ?model.tables
>> >
>>
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