Re: New function

[Jason Stover]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:03:16PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote:
> > It was until I made a bunch of changes to incorporate categorical
> > variables and interactions. I'm fixing that now.
> 
> I was thinking about it on my work. How do you treat categorical
> variables on singular value decomposition?

They must be written as binary vectors, or vectors containing cell
counts. So, for example, a variable with values 'a', 'b' and 'c' must
be encoded as:

   a --> (0,0)
   b --> (1,0)
   c --> (0,1)

-Jason