Data: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:08:26 -0300 (ART)
De: Milton Cezar <miltinho_astronauta@yahoo.com.br>
Assunto: R: Piecewise (broken stick) models in R && Stats for groups
Para: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch


  Chris Barker and everyone
   
  Thanks for your fast replay.
  Regarding the descreptive Stats, I can compute it for the full dataset, but I can´t comput it for groups of that. 
  I used mean ( Rainfall [year==1980] ) without problem. But how can I get the mean Rainfall for Year==1980 AND Site=1; Year=1980 AND Site=2 etc.
   
  Regarding my question for Pieacewise Regression model It can really be done with liner models functions. In fact, the results are a set of models that work bether in different range of an X variable (for  X varying 0 to 0.15 use model_1; for 0.16 to 0.46 use model_2... for X>0,47 use model_3 etc.
   
  Sorry for my broken english,
   
  Regards a lot,
  Miltinho
   
  From: Barker, Chris [SCIUS] 
  To: 'Milton Cezar' 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:47 PM
  Subject: RE: [R] Piecewise (broken stick) models in R
  You can get descriptive statistics with mean(), var() or summary(). 
AS to broken stick, I can only speculate that's a variation on a regression.  You may need to be more specific in your questions to the list, as I suspect its something easily done in the linear models functions.
          Chris Barker 
Associate Director, Biostatistics 
            Scios Inc. 
6500 Paseo Padre Parkway 
     Fremont, CA 94555 
Tel 510 248 2439 
Fax 510 248 2451 
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  From:   r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch On Behalf Of Milton Cezar 
Sent:   Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:42 AM 
To:     r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 
Subject:        [R] Piecewise (broken stick) models in R 
   << File: ATT17883177.txt >> Hi there, 
  I´m a newbie in R and I´m looking for some advice how to teste Piecewise (Broken Stick) models. 
   
  I´have another simple question: how can I compute descriptive statistics for data grouped for two or more variables? See below, please.
     
  Year  Site Repetition rainfall 
   1980  1         1         ... 
   1980  1         2         ... 
   1980  1         3         ... 
   1980  2         1         ... 
   1980  2         2         ... 
   1980  2         3         ... 
   
   1990  1         1         ... 
   1990  1         2         ... 
   1990  1         3         ... 
   1990  2         1         ... 
   1990  2         2         ... 
   1990  2         3         ... 
   
  I´d like to compute the mean rainfall for each YEAR * SITE combination. 
   
  Kind regards, 
   
  Miltinho 
                  
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