Message-ID: <20081202131705.46799297@berwin-nus1>
Date: 2008-12-02T05:17:05Z
From: Berwin A Turlach
Subject: r2 for lm() with zero intercept
In-Reply-To: <914D7AFE471D6E46AFECD987B8F24A3B19852DF4@EXVIC-MBX02.nexus.csiro.au>
G'day Glenn,
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:53:44 +1100
<Glenn.Newnham at csiro.au> wrote:
> I'm a little confused about the R2 and adjusted R2 values reported by
> lm() when I try to fix an intercept. When using +0 or -1 in the
> formula I have found that the standard error generally increases (as
> I would expect) but the R2 also increases (which seems counter
> intuitive).
?summary.lm
In particular the part:
r.squared: R^2, the 'fraction of variance explained by the model',
R^2 = 1 - Sum(R[i]^2) / Sum((y[i]- y*)^2),
where y* is the mean of y[i] if there is an intercept and
zero otherwise.
> I do realise that many will say I shouldn't be fixing the intercept
> anyway
Quite true; accept if there are very good reasons. I have seen
intercept through the origin being misused to obtain a large R^2 and
significant coefficient when there were none.
Cheers,
Berwin
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