[R] R question - combine values

choonhong ang angie.bearman at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 04:33:37 CET 2009


The district a is the baseline and we observe the difference between
District a & b is not significant, we can choose to combine these 2 values.
How to write code to combine these 2 value ?

> m1=glm(Claims~District+Group+Age+log(Holders),fami ly=poisson,data=mydata)
> summary(m1)

Call:
glm(formula = Claims ~ District + Group + Age + log(Holders),
family = poisson, data = mydata)

Deviance Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-2.553115 -0.471819 0.002411 0.455274 1.800739

Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept) -2.777752 0.689162 -4.031 5.56e-05 ***
Districtb 0.119942 0.079861 1.502 0.133125
Districtc 0.228371 0.144503 1.580 0.114019
Districtd 0.571661 0.248792 2.298 0.021576 *
Group>2l 0.794721 0.180354 4.406 1.05e-05 ***
Group1-1.5l -0.003496 0.127947 -0.027 0.978202
Group1.5-2l 0.379190 0.055856 6.789 1.13e-11 ***
Age>35 -1.074971 0.389480 -2.760 0.005780 **
Age25-29 -0.332131 0.129512 -2.564 0.010333 *
Age30-35 -0.539815 0.160138 -3.371 0.000749 ***
log(Holders) 1.201696 0.144135 8.337 < 2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

(Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1)

Null deviance: 4236.68 on 63 degrees of freedom
Residual deviance: 49.45 on 53 degrees of freedom
AIC: 388.77


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