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SWITCH directive

Adds terms to, or drops them from a linear, generalized linear, generalized additive or nonlinear model.

Options

PRINT = string tokens What to print (model, deviance, summary, estimates, correlations, fittedvalues, accumulated, monitoring, confidence); default mode,summ,esti
NONLINEAR = string token How to treat nonlinear parameters between groups (common, separate, unchanged); default unch
CONSTANT = string token How to treat the constant (estimate, omit, unchanged, ignore); default unch
FACTORIAL = scalar Limit for expansion of model terms; default * i.e. that in previous TERMS statement
POOL = string token Whether to pool ss in accumulated summary between all terms fitted in a linear model (yes, no); default no
DENOMINATOR = string token Whether to base ratios in accumulated summary on rms from model with smallest residual ss or smallest residual ms (ss, ms); default ss
NOMESSAGE = string tokens Which warning messages to suppress (dispersion, leverage, residual, aliasing, marginality, vertical, df, inflation); default *
FPROBABILITY = string token Printing of probabilities for variance and deviance ratios (yes, no); default no
TPROBABILITY = string token Printing of probabilities for t-statistics (yes, no); default no
SELECTION = string tokens Statistics to be displayed in the summary of analysis produced by PRINT=summary, seobservations is relevant only for a Normally distributed response, and %cv only for a gamma-distributed response (%variance, %ss, adjustedr2, r2, seobservations, dispersion, %cv, %meandeviance, %deviance, aic, bic, sic); default %var, seob if DIST=normal, %cv if DIST=gamma, and disp for other distributions
PROBABILITY = scalar Probability level for confidence intervals for parameter estimates; default 0.95
AOVDESCRIPTION = text Description for line in accumulated analysis of variance (or deviance) table when POOL=yes

Parameter

    formula List of explanatory variates and factors, or model formula

Description

SWITCH modifies the current regression model, which may be linear, generalized linear, generalized additive, standard curve or nonlinear. Terms in the specified formula are dropped from the current model if they are already there, or are added to it if they are not. It is best to give a TERMS statement before investigating sequences of models using SWITCH, in order to define a common set of units for the models to be explored. If no model is fitted after the TERMS statement, the current model is taken to be the null model.

If the current model contains a smoothed term (specified e.g. by SSPLINE or LOESS) which is included in the formula specified by the parameter of SWITCH with a different number of degrees of freedom (or with the smoothing parameter set), SWITCH will then refit the smoothed term.

The model fitted by SWITCH will include a constant term if the previous model included one, and will not include one if the previous model did not. You can, however, change this using the CONSTANT option.

The options of SWITCH are the same as those of the FIT directive, but with the extra NONLINEAR option which controls whether separate nonlinear parameters are fitted to different groups when fitting curves, as in FITCURVE.

Options: PRINT, NONLINEAR, CONSTANT, FACTORIAL, POOL, DENOMINATOR, NOMESSAGE, FPROBABILITY, TPROBABILITY, SELECTION, PROBABILITY, AOVDESCRIPTION.

Parameter: unnamed.

Action with RESTRICT

If a TERMS statement was given before fitting the model, any restrictions on the variates or factors in the model will have been implemented then. So any restrictions on vectors involved in the model specified by SWITCH will be ignored. If no TERMS statement has been given and SWITCH introduces new terms into the model, restrictions on the variates or factors in these terms will be taken into account and may cause the units involved in the regression to be redefined.

See also

Directives: MODEL, TERMS, FIT, FITCURVE, ADD, DROP, STEP, TRY.

Functions: COMPARISON, POL, REG, LOESS, SSPLINE.

Commands for: Regression analysis.

Example

" Examples 2:3.2, 2:3.2.1-6, 2:3.2.7a-b, 2:3.2.8 "
"  Multiple linear regression of the heat given out by setting cement
   on four chemical constituents. Data from Woods, Steinour & Starke
   (1932); analysed by Draper & Smith (1981) p.629."
OPEN '%GENDIR%/Examples/GuidePart2/Cement.dat'; CHANNEL=2
READ [PRINT=data; CHANNEL=2] X[3,1,4,2],%gypsum,Heat
" Analyse only those samples with 3.2% gypsum."
RESTRICT Heat; %gypsum==3.2
MODEL Heat
" Constituents are: X[1]  tricalcium aluminate
                    X[2]  tricalcium silicate
                    X[3]  tetracalcium aluminoferrite
                    X[4]  beta-dicalcium silicate "
FIT [FPROBABILITY=yes; TPROBABILITY=yes] X[]
RDISPLAY [PRINT=accumulated; FPROBABILITY=yes]
RKESTIMATES X[]; ESTIMATES=Est[1...4]; SE=se[1...4]
PRINT Est[1],se[1],Est[2],se[2],Est[3],se[3],Est[4],se[4]; FIELD=10,8
TERMS [PRINT=correlation] X[]
ADD [PRINT=deviance,estimates; TPROBABILITY=yes] X[1,2,4]
DROP [PRINT=deviance,estimates; TPROBABILITY=yes] X[4]
SWITCH [PRINT=estimates,accumulated; FPROBABILITY=yes;\
       TPROBABILITY=yes] X[2,4]
TRY X[2,3]
FIT [FPROBABILITY=yes; TPROBABILITY=yes] X[]
RWALD
FIT [PRINT=*] X[1]
STEP [INRATIO=4; OUTRATIO=4; FPROBABILITY=yes; TPROBABILITY=yes] X[1...4]
TERMS X[]
STEP [PRINT=changes; INRATIO=4; OUTRATIO=4; MAXCYCLE=10] X[]
RDISPLAY [FPROBABILITY=yes; TPROBABILITY=yes]
RSEARCH [METHOD=allpossible] X[1...4]
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Updated on March 5, 2019

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