drop_collinear: drop_collinear

In BMisc: Miscellaneous Functions for Panel Data, Quantiles, and Printing Results

drop_collinear

Description

A function to check for multicollinearity and drop collinear terms from a matrix

Usage

drop_collinear(matrix)

Arguments

matrix

a matrix for which the function will remove collinear columns

Value

a matrix with collinear columns removed

Examples

  if (requireNamespace("caret", quietly = TRUE)) {
    X <- cbind(1:5, 2 * (1:5), rnorm(5))
    colnames(X) <- c("x1", "x2", "x3")
    drop_collinear(X) ## x2 dropped as collinear with x1
  }

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