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posting guide and post code that shows what you did. Unless there's a
claiRvoyant package out there somewhere to figure it out.

-- Bert

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:43 AM, yan <y.jiao@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> if all my numerical variables in my datasets having the same units, may I
> leave them unnormalized, just do cv.glmnet
> directly(cv.glmnet(data,standardize=FALSE))?
> i know normally if there is a mixture of numerical and categorical , one
> has
> to standardize the numerical part before applying  cv.glmnet with
> standardize=fase, but that's due to the different units in the numerical
> part, right? so if all the units are the same, could I skip the pre
> standardize part?
>
> I tried both ways(standardize the numerical part and not standardize
> numerical part), the results are very similar, what I don't understand is
> for the coefficients of categorical variables, why they are so different in
> two cases?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Yan
>
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