dummy.code {CaDENCE}

Convert a factor to a matrix of dummy codes

Description

Converts a factor (categorical) variable to a matrix of dummy codes using a 1 of C-1 binary coding scheme.

Usage

dummy.code(x)

Arguments

x

a factor variable.

Value

a matrix with the number of rows equal to the number of cases in x and the number of columns equal to one minus the number of factors in x. The last factor serves as the reference group.

Examples

  print(dummy.code(iris$Species))