Re: st: RE: Stata and R

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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I followed this link too, and while it is a nomogram (Fagan's  
nomogram) it is not what I'm after. Nomogram() in R is more general  
and follows any GLM. See the example picture in the first link I gave.

-Dave

On May 15, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Nick Cox wrote:


> -findit nomogram- points to Ben Dwamena's -midas-.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> David Airey
>
> Just about every other week I drop into our R clinic for a coffee
> break to listen to people's questions and maybe ask one myself. The
> clinic is about general use questions, not especially about
> Bioconductor packages, which is one reason to use R. The clinic is run
> by a very capable R expert. Originally I started going to the clinic
> thinking to myself that well, maybe this would be the last version of
> Stata I would buy, because R has come miles in development and
> documentation. More often than not, however, I conclude the opposite,
> and continue to regularly use Stata, thinking there is value is good
> commercial products.
>
> One interesting function in R that I can't find in Stata is Frank
> Harrell's nomogram function in the Design package, which essentially
> is a graphical alternative to outreg or estout.
>
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/Harrell/help/Design/html/nomogram.html
>
> http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2006/05/nomogram
> s.html
>
>
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