[R] [NB] lm problems

Matej Cepl matej at ceplovi.cz
Wed Nov 27 02:15:43 CET 2002


On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> You can't do linear regression with an ordered factor as a response.
> If you mean to code the levels you need to do so explicitly by
> codes(G5).

Thanks to everybody who answered to my query. Just to justify
myself in your eyes, let me tell you that a silly idea of doing
regression analysis on nominal variables is not mine, but of my
instructor in school.

Thanks again,

Matej

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