lm.ridge {MASS} | R Documentation

## Ridge Regression

### Description

Fit a linear model by ridge regression.

### Usage

    lm.ridge(formula, data, subset, na.action, lambda = 0, model = FALSE,
             x = FALSE, y = FALSE, contrasts = NULL, ...)

### Arguments

`formula` | a formula expression as for regression models, of the form `response ~ predictors`. See the documentation of `formula` for other details.
`data` | an optional data frame in which to interpret the variables occurring in `formula`.
`subset` | expression saying which subset of the rows of the data should be used in the fit. All observations are included by default.
`na.action` | a function to filter missing data.
`lambda` | A scalar or vector of ridge constants.
`model` | should the model frame be returned?
`x` | should the design matrix be returned?
`y` | should the response be returned?
`contrasts` | a list of contrasts to be used for some or all of
`...` | additional arguments to `lm.fit`.

### Value

A list with components

`coef` | matrix of coefficients, one row for each value of `lambda`.
`scales` | scalings used on the X matrix.
`Inter` | was intercept included?
`lambda` | vector of lambda values
`ym` | mean of `y`
`xm` | column means of `x` matrix
`GCV` | vector of GCV values
`kHKB` | HKB estimate of the ridge constant.
`kLW` | L-W estimate of the ridge constant.

### References

Brown, P. J. (1994) Measurement, Regression and Calibration Oxford.

### See Also

`lm`

### Examples

    data(longley)
    names(longley)[1] <- "y"
    lm.ridge(y ~ ., longley)
    plot(lm.ridge(y ~ ., longley,
                  lambda = seq(0,0.1,0.001)))
    select(lm.ridge(y ~ ., longley,
                   lambda = seq(0,0.1,0.0001)))
    # modified HKB estimator is 0.0042754
    # modified L-W estimator is 0.032295
    # smallest value of GCV  at 0.0028

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