contr.sdif {MASS} | R Documentation

## Successive Differences Contrast Coding

### Description

A coding for unordered factors based on successive differences.

### Usage

    contr.sdif(n, contrasts = TRUE)

### Arguments

`n` | The number of levels required.
`contrasts` | Should there be `n - 1` columns orthogonal to the mean (the default) or `n` columns spanning the space.

### Details

The contrast coefficients are chosen so that the coded coefficients in a one-way layout are the differences between the means of the second and first levels, the third and second levels, and so on.

### Value

If `contrasts` is `TRUE`, a matrix with `n` rows and `n - 1` columns, and the `n` by `n` identity matrix if `contrasts` is `FALSE`.

### References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition, Springer.

### See Also

`contr.treatment`, `contr.sum`, `contr.helmert`.

### Examples

    contr.sdif(6)

[Package MASS version 7.2-49 Index]