[R] help

[Daniel Mastropietro]

Define the variable as a factor.
Suppose you have a response 'y' and a regressor 'x' that has the binary 
variables, then do:

lm(y ~ as.factor(x));

This is also valid for any categorical variable, not only for binary variables.

The function factor() may also be of interest to you.

At 01:27 PM 4/7/2002 -0700, elizabeth pino wrote:
>Hello:
>     Can you tell me how to do a regression
>    that include a binary variable in the function lm
>or some other?.
>  thank you for any help.
>
>Elizabeth

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