Insurance data in library(MASS)
Try ?relevel -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of choonhong ang Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:33 PM To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Insurance data in library(MASS) Hi, In the result shown, the District 1 is used as the base category. How to change to make District 4 as a base category ?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM, choonhong ang <angie.bearman at gmail.com>wrote:
I have used the insurance data from R library and I have 2 questions: I use the following:
library(MASS) data(Insurance) m1=glm(Claims ~ District + Group + Age + offset(log(Holders)),data =
Insurance, family = poisson)
summary(m1)
Call:
glm(formula = Claims ~ District + Group + Age + offset(log(Holders)),
family = poisson, data = Insurance)
Deviance Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-2.46558 -0.50802 -0.03198 0.55555 1.94026
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept) -1.810508 0.032972 -54.910 < 2e-16 ***
District2 0.025868 0.043016 0.601 0.547597
District3 0.038524 0.050512 0.763 0.445657
District4 0.234205 0.061673 3.798 0.000146 ***
Group.L 0.429708 0.049459 8.688 < 2e-16 ***
Group.Q 0.004632 0.041988 0.110 0.912150
Group.C -0.029294 0.033069 -0.886 0.375696
Age.L -0.394432 0.049404 -7.984 1.42e-15 ***
Age.Q -0.000355 0.048918 -0.007 0.994210
Age.C -0.016737 0.048478 -0.345 0.729910
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
(Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1)
Null deviance: 236.26 on 63 degrees of freedom
Residual deviance: 51.42 on 54 degrees of freedom
AIC: 388.74
(1) In the result above, what is Group.L, Group.Q, Group.C, Age.L, Age.Q,
Age.C ?
(2) When I copy the Insurance data in csv format (as shown in the
attachement) and run the same procedure the result shown is different from
above result, why ?
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