[R] [FORGED] Re: Help with Binning Data

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Shouro,
While I have enjoyed the continuing discussion on this particular message
(repression may have been a Galtonian slip), there is a lingering doubt in
my mind. You say that you want to categorize the weekly temperatures for
cities in bins of about 5.6 degrees (centigrade?). In almost all of the
cities you include in your sample data (quite a few of which I have
personal experience) the variation in temperature over a day, not to
mention a week, is more than this. Unless you derive some particular
temperature value, many cities will span more than one bin over a week.
Have you already calculated a weekly average from your 3 hour observations?

Jim


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:47 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:

> "that rely on profusion of dummies" :)
>
> +1
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
> > Sent: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:22:38 +1200
> > To: dwinsemius at comcast.net
> > Subject: Re: [R] [FORGED] Re: Help with Binning Data
> >
> > On 11/09/15 11:57, David Winsemius wrote:
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> >> The urge to imitate other statistical package that rely on profusion
> >> of dummies should be resisted. R repression functions can handle
> >> factor variables ....
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > Fortune? :-)
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Rolf
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