[Rd] matching predictors and dummies

Mark Difford mark_difford at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jul 12 08:22:01 CEST 2008


Hi Jeroen,

>> How could i use the model$terms to extract which coefficients belong to
>> which factor, 
>> the way anova() does it?

There may be a simpler ("canned") way to do it, but why don't you debug
anova.lm to see how it does it?

##
methods("anova")
anova.lm

HTH, Mark.


Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> 
> 
> Charles C. Berry wrote:
>> 
>> See
>>  	?terms
>>  	?terms.object
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> I am sorry but i cannot figure out how i can find out which coefficients
> belong to which predictors using the model$terms. If i do
> attributes(model$terms) i get a nice list which contains the orriginal
> factors and some more information, and from model$xlevels i can see the
> levels of these factors. However, it does not say anywhere which of the
> model$coefficients belong to which factor. The only thing i can imagine is
> assuming that the dummy names are simply the concatenation of the factor
> name and the level name, which seems to be the default behavior. But
> preferebly i would not want to make my program rely on this assumption.
> How could i use the model$terms to extract which coefficients belong to
> which factor, the way anova() does it?
> 
> 

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