Greetings,

I have recently been exploring the 'glmnet' package and subsequently
cv.glmnet.  The basic code as follows:

model <- cv.glmnet(variables, group, family="multinomial", alpha=.5,
standardize=F)

I understand that cv.glmnet does k-fold cross-validation to return a value
of lambda.  However, sometimes when I follow up the cv.glmnet to extract
the coefficients either very few or all are zero.  If I understand this
correctly, it means that there aren't very many (if any) variables to
separate the groups.  Despite this, I would like to provide a list of
variables and rank them in terms of importance (even if not discriminatory
as this is for some simulation purposes and not working on a particular
question/experiment).  Is there a way for my to set up the analysis to
provide a user determined number of variables?  Or perhaps another way, is
it possible to determine the order with which variables are dropped from
the model?

Best regards,

-- 
Charles Determan
Integrated Biosciences PhD Candidate
University of Minnesota

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