[R] Getting betas in lm

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Ragnar Beer wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> is there a simple way to get beta weights from lm? So far I've done 
> z-transformations of the variables before using them in lm.

Could you please explain your notation?  coef(fit) gives the coefficients,
which may be what you want.

> I also wonder whether there is a function to calculate variance with 
> n instead of (n-1)?

cov.wt does so in S-PLUS but not R.  It is very easy to write one (if
you really want one):

myvar <- function(x, y) var(x)*(1 - 1/NROW(x))

I think does what you want, at least if there are no missing values.

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