[R] VGAM-vglm

Thomas Yee t.yee at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Oct 31 21:32:08 CET 2006


 > Can somebody explain to me why I get different results using 
multinom(package
 > nnet) and vglm(package VGAM)?

The multinom function in the nnet package
uses the first level of the factor as baseline, whereas the last
level of the factor is used with multinomial().
Consequently the estimated regression coefficients differ.
They can be reconciled very easily with some basic maths.

cheers
Thomas



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