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How do you handle categorical variables in R?
Categorical Variables
- x: A vector of categorical data in R. Need to be a string or integer, not decimal.
- Levels: A vector of possible values taken by x. This argument is optional.
- Labels: Add a label to the x categorical data in R.
- ordered: Determine if the levels should be ordered in categorical data in R.
What do you mean by categorical variable?
A categorical variable (sometimes called a nominal variable) is one that has two or more categories, but there is no intrinsic ordering to the categories.
How do you compare categorical variables between three groups?
If you are using categorical data you can use the Kruskal-Wallis test (the non-parametric equivalent of the one-way ANOVA) to determine group differences. If the test shows there are differences between the 3 groups. You can use the Mann-Whitney test to do pairwise comparisons as a post hoc or follow up analysis.
How to simplify regression with categorical variables?
Thus we can simplify our model to: weighti = βδM ale i +α w e i g h t i = β δ i M a l e + α This model will give the value α α if the subject is female and β(1) +α = β+α β ( 1) + α = β + α if the subject is male.
How to deal with categorical variable in predictive modeling?
Here are commonly used ones: Using Business Logic: It is one of the most effective method of combining levels. It makes sense also to combine similar levels into similar groups based on domain or business experience. For example, we can combine levels of a variable “zip code” at state or district level.
How to treat exercise variable as categorical variable?
To make sure that R treats the exercise variable as a categorical one in our regression model we should check what R thinks this variable is: Notice R thinks this is a discrete numeric variable (incorrectly).
What do you call an analysis with two categorical variables?
This type of analysis with two categorical explanatory variables is also a type of ANOVA. This time it is called a two-way ANOVA. Once again we see it is just a special case of regression. Exercise 12.3 Repeat the analysis from this section but change the response variable from weight to GPA.