[R] 'ref' must be an existing level

[Shivi Bhatia]

Hi Peter,
It gives me breakdown of all categories with their respective freq.
Diploma     general  honors
         50          45         105

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:07 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

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> What does table(m11$prog) tell you?
> -pd
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> > On 09 Jul 2016, at 12:29 , Shivi Bhatia <shivipmp82 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Dear Team,
> >
> > I am running a multinomial logistic regression model for one of the
> > fictitious data before i implement the same on my real data.
> > Here i am trying to predict based some scores and economic group whether
> a
> > person will go for a diploma, general or honors.
> >
> > The code below:
> > m11$prog2<- relevel(m11$prog, ref = "honors"
> >
> > already loaded the nnet library. However i got the below error:
> > Error in relevel.factor(m11$prog, ref = "honors") :
> >  'ref' must be an existing level
> >
> > I have tried searching on SO and nabble but did not find an answer that
> > could help.
> >
> > Please suggest what is incorrect. Also checked the class of the var and
> is
> > a factor variable.
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