[rkward-devel] Linear regression plugin

[Stefan Rödiger]

Am Montag, 24. September 2007 13:53:34 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> On Monday 24 September 2007, Stefan Rödiger wrote:
> > Am Montag, 24. September 2007 01:47:45 schrieb Germán Márquez Mejía:
> > > I've looked at the linear regression plug-in. Yes, it is basic. I
> > > wonder if, at least for usefulness in 0.4.8, it is possible to add
> > > some more simple "independent variable" fields (say, 4), so the user
> > > can add more than one variable until an elaborated solution is ready.
> >
> > I think this will not be possible since the developmental and release
> > branch were separated a couple of days ago. Sorry.
>
> I've finally taken a look at the linear regression plugin. Allowing for
> multiple predictors did not seem too hard to do, and highly useful, so I
> added this for inclusion in 0.4.8.
>

You are the boss and make the rules. :)

> While at it, I slashed down the .php file for now, by simply printing the
> result with rk.print(), i.e. R2HTML. Since basically we were producing
> mostly the same output, this seemed much easier, and safer for now. Also,
> previously the description of the estimated coefficients was not included
> in the table, and this was the easiest way to fix that. For the future, the
> code is still in SVN, so we can revisit this later, when we want to improve
> the output formatting. Is this ok with you?
>
> Could you please take a look, and do some testing on this?

It's elegant in a rather annoying manner. ;)
No really, it's working as it should (with by far less lines of code than I 
expected). I'll test it more intensive tonight.

>
> Regards
> Thomas

Stefan