SWITCH directive

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


Options

PRINT = strings
What to print (model, deviance, summary, estimates, correlations, fittedvalues, accumulated, monitoring); default mode,summ,esti

NONLINEAR = string
How to treat nonlinear parameters between groups (common, separate, unchanged); default unch

CONSTANT = string
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
Whether to pool ss in accumulated summary between all terms fitted in a linear model (yes, no); default no

DENOMINATOR = string
Whether to base ratios in accumulated summary on rms from model with smallest residual ss or smallest residual ms (ss, ms); default ss

NOMESSAGE = strings
Which warning messages to suppress (dispersion, leverage, residual, aliasing, marginality, vertical, df, inflation); default *

FPROBABILITY = string
Printing of probabilities for variance and deviance ratios (yes, no); default no

TPROBABILITY = string
Printing of probabilities for t-statistics (yes, no); default no

SELECTION = strings
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, sic); default %var, seob if DIST=normal, %cv if DIST=gamma, and disp for other distributions


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.

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.