factorMerger (version 0.3.1)

mergeFactors: Merge factors

Description

Performs step-wise merging of factor levels.

Usage

mergeFactors(response, factor, family = "gaussian", successive = FALSE,
  method = "LRT", abbreviate = TRUE)

Arguments

response

A response vector/matrix suitable for the model family.

factor

A factor vector.

family

Model family to be used in merging. Available models are: "gaussian", "survival", "binomial". By default mergeFactors uses "gaussian" model.

successive

If FALSE, the default, in each step of the merging procedure all possible pairs are compared. Otherwise, factor levels are preliminarly sorted and only succesive pairs are compared.

method

A string specifying method used during merging. Two methods are availabel: "hclust", "LRT". The default is "LRT".

abbreviate

Logical. If TRUE, the default, factor levels names are abbreviated.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
randSample <- generateMultivariateSample(N = 100, k = 10, d = 3)
mergeFactors(randSample$response, randSample$factor)

# }