Hi all, and apologies if it’s a simple question. I’ve tried googling and for some reason still can’t wrap my head around it… I’m trying to create a function that generated models which could have differing number of categorical features. The way the model is defined (abbreviated) is the following: …

Thanks for the reply! What I’m building is actually a Poisson GLM with multiple intercepts (one for each combination of categorical variables), following Richard McElreath’s recommendation of using indexing instead of one-hot encoding categorical variables. In the end I managed to solve the issue w…

Help figuring out simple categorical indexing

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ckrapu December 13, 2022, 5:45pm 4

Thanks for sharing that solution here! I like it a lot and will definitely be using that one in the future for indexing in high dims.

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Help figuring out simple categorical indexing

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