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Add an over-parametrized dummy coding scheme #60

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njsmith opened this issue Apr 14, 2015 · 3 comments
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Add an over-parametrized dummy coding scheme #60

njsmith opened this issue Apr 14, 2015 · 3 comments

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njsmith commented Apr 14, 2015

To provide one way for users who definitely want overparametrized dummy coding to just do

C(myfactor, DummyDammit)

or whatever.

[Request from Josef, talked over at PyCon]

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njsmith commented Apr 14, 2015

CC @josef-pkt

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We also need the opposite -- exclude all reference categories. This is needed for Cox proportional hazards models in survival analysis and some forms of multinomial regression. In those models the intercept is not identified, so we can't have 1 in the column-space of the design matrix.

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+1 for optional overparametrized designs

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