Re: 2 obvious
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- Subject: [mg115407] Re: 2 obvious
- From: Francisco Gutierrez <fgutiers2002 at yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:38:36 -0500 (EST)
Many thanks to Darren and others who provided very useful answers to my query.
And happy 2011
Fg
--- On Tue, 1/4/11, Darren Glosemeyer <darreng at wolfram.com> wrote:
> From: Darren Glosemeyer <darreng at wolfram.com>
> Subject: [mg115231] Re: 2 obvious
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 6:50 PM
> On 12/23/2010 2:55 AM, Francisco
> Gutierrez wrote:
> > Dear Group:
> > Ok, here comes a really silly question. After v. 7,
> the statistical capacities of Mathematica have been
> substantially boosted. However, I haven't been able to
> interpret the simple command LogitModelFit. THe problem is
> that the documentation only offers examples with two
> independent variables. I have not managed to find how can n
> more independent variables can be inserted so that the
> command works. Can somebody send me a simple and clear
> example?
> >
> > Let this be a pretext to thank all the incredibly
> useful help the members of this list have generously
> provided to me and others. Happy holidays,
> > Fg
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hi Francisco,
>
> The data argument is like for other fitting functions. The
> independent
> (predictor) variables are the first n-1 elements in each
> data point and
> the last element in the data point is a dependent
> (response) variable.
>
> Here is a list of 5 data points each having two predictors
> and one response.
>
> In[1]:== data == {{10, 4, 0.26}, {8, 3, 0.04}, {2, 0, 0.17},
> {4, 8, 0.09},
> {9, 4, 0.83}};
>
> This treats the predictors as x and y in the fitting
>
> In[2]:== lm == LogitModelFit[data, {x, y}, {x, y}];
>
>
> and here we get the fitted function and a table of
> parameter information
> for the fitting.
>
> In[3]:== lm[{"BestFit", "ParameterTable"}]
>
>
> 1
> Out[3]== {-------------------------------------,
>
> 2.384 - 0.236963 x + 0.0664776 y
> 1 + E
>
> > Estimate
> Standard
> Error z\[Hyphen]Statistic
> P\[Hyphen]Value}
>
> 1 -2.384
> 3.41536
> -0.698022
> 0.485163
>
> x 0.236963
> 0.388785
> 0.609496
> 0.542196
>
>
> y -0.0664776 0.529535
> -0.125539
> 0.900097
>
>
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Darren Glosemeyer
> Wolfram Research
>
>