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Reference group for a factor variable in the GUI

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Subject: Reference group for a factor variable in the GUI
From: Sarah Henderson <sarah.henderson@ubc.ca>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:24:41 -0800

Please accept my apology for posting a question about the Graphic User Interface (GUI) to a group who's predominant interest is in the command language.

I am the teaching assistant for a course in biostatistics. All students are new to S-PLUS, and are using version 6.1 or 6.2 on Windows machines. They are using the GUI and not expected to learn or understand the S language. Several students have asked if they can choose which category to set as the reference for factor variables (treatment contrast) in their regression models. I see from the archives that someone has addressed this question with code, but I wonder if it's possible through the menu-driven GUI.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,

Sarah Henderson
The University of British Columbia


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