Why lm() not showing some output in R? - r

Question

I was wondering why lm() says 5 coefs not defined because of singularities and then gives all NA in the summary output for 5 coefficients.
Note that all my predictors are categorical.
Is there anything wrong with my data on these 5 coefficients or code? How can I possibly fix this?
d <- read.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rnorouzian/m/master/v.csv", h = T) # Data
nms <- c("Age","genre","Length","cf.training","error.type","cf.scope","cf.type","cf.revision")
d[nms] <- lapply(d[nms], as.factor) # make factor
vv <- lm(dint~Age+genre+Length+cf.training+error.type+cf.scope+cf.type+cf.revision, data = d)
summary(vv)
First 6 lines of output:
Coefficients: (5 not defined because of singularities)
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.17835 0.63573 0.281 0.779330
Age1 -0.04576 0.86803 -0.053 0.958010
Age2 0.46431 0.87686 0.530 0.596990
Age99 -1.64099 1.04830 -1.565 0.118949
genre2 1.57015 0.55699 2.819 0.005263 **
genre4 NA NA NA NA ## For example here is all `NA`s? there are 4 more !

Answer 1

As others noted, a problem is that you seem to have multicollinearity. Another is that there are missing values in your dataset. The missing values should probably just be removed. As for correlated variables, you should inspect your data to identify this collinearity, and remove it. Deciding which variables to remove and which to retain is a very domain-specific topic. However, you could if you wish decide to use regularisation and fit a model while retaining all variables. This also allows you to fit a model when n (number of samples) is less than p (number of predictors).
I've shown code below that demonstrates how to examine the correlation structure within your data, and to identify which variables are most correlated (thanks to this answer. I've included an example of fitting such a model, using L2 regularisation (commonly known as ridge regression).
d <- read.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rnorouzian/m/master/v.csv", h = T) # Data
nms <- c("Age","genre","Length","cf.training","error.type","cf.scope","cf.type","cf.revision")
d[nms] <- lapply(d[nms], as.factor) # make factor
vv <- lm(dint~Age+genre+Length+cf.training+error.type+cf.scope+cf.type+cf.revision, data = d)
df <- d
df[] <- lapply(df, as.numeric)
cor_mat <- cor(as.matrix(df), use = "complete.obs")
library("gplots")
heatmap.2(cor_mat, trace = "none")
## https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22282531/how-to-compute-correlations-between-all-columns-in-r-and-detect-highly-correlate
library("tibble")
library("dplyr")
library("tidyr")
d2 <- df %>%
as.matrix() %>%
cor(use = "complete.obs") %>%
## Set diag (a vs a) to NA, then remove
(function(x) {
diag(x) <- NA
x
}) %>%
as.data.frame %>%
rownames_to_column(var = 'var1') %>%
gather(var2, value, -var1) %>%
filter(!is.na(value)) %>%
## Sort by decreasing absolute correlation
arrange(-abs(value))
## 2 pairs of variables are almost exactly correlated!
head(d2)
#> var1 var2 value
#> 1 id study.name 0.9999430
#> 2 study.name id 0.9999430
#> 3 Location timed 0.9994082
#> 4 timed Location 0.9994082
#> 5 Age ed.level 0.7425026
#> 6 ed.level Age 0.7425026
## Remove some variables here, or maybe try regularized regression (see below)
library("glmnet")
## glmnet requires matrix input
X <- d[, c("Age", "genre", "Length", "cf.training", "error.type", "cf.scope", "cf.type", "cf.revision")]
X[] <- lapply(X, as.numeric)
X <- as.matrix(X)
ind_na <- apply(X, 1, function(row) any(is.na(row)))
X <- X[!ind_na, ]
y <- d[!ind_na, "dint"]
glmnet <- glmnet(
x = X,
y = y,
## alpha = 0 is ridge regression
alpha = 0)
plot(glmnet)
Created on 2019-11-08 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Answer 2

Under such situation you can use "olsrr" package in R for stepwise regression analysis. I am providing you a sample code to do stepwise regression analysis in R
library("olsrr")
#Load the data
d <- read.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rnorouzian/m/master/v.csv", h = T)
# stepwise regression
vv <- lm(dint ~ Age + genre + Length + cf.training + error.type + cf.scope + cf.type + cf.revision, data = d)
summary(vv)
k <- ols_step_both_p(vv, pent = 0.05, prem = 0.1)
# stepwise regression plot
plot(k)
# final model
k$model
It will provide you exactly the same output as that of SPSS.