[R] less than full rank contrast methods

[mxkuhn]

Greg and Frank,

Thanks for the replies. I didn't express myself very well; I'm not interest in the model fitting aspect. I'd just like to get the full set of dummy variables (optimally from model.matrix)

Max

On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

> 
> Given a non-singular fit, the contrast function in the rms package will allow
> you to request multi-dimensional contrasts some of which are redundant. 
> These singular contrasts are automatically ignored.  One use for this is to
> test for differences in longitudinal trends between two of three treatment
> groups, where the time trend is a multiple degree of freedom
> parameterization such as cubic splines.  You don't have to stop and think
> about how many time points to test; just test as many as you'd like and get
> the right degrees of freedom according to the number of spline terms (main
> effects + interactions).
> 
> Frank
> 
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