R: Translate the results from lm() to an equation - r

Question

I'm using R and I want to translate the results from lm() to an equation.
My model is:
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-0.048110 -0.023948 -0.000376 0.024511 0.044190
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.17691 0.00909 349.50 < 2e-16 ***
poly(QPB2_REF1, 2)1 0.64947 0.03015 21.54 2.66e-14 ***
poly(QPB2_REF1, 2)2 0.10824 0.03015 3.59 0.00209 **
B2DBSA_REF1DONSON -0.20959 0.01286 -16.30 3.17e-12 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 0.03015 on 18 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.9763, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9724
F-statistic: 247.6 on 3 and 18 DF, p-value: 8.098e-15
Do you have any idea?
I tried to have something like
f <- function(x) {3.17691 + 0.64947*x +0.10824*x^2 -0.20959*1 + 0.03015^2}
but when I tried to set a x, the f(x) value is incorrect.

Answer 1

Your output indicates that the model includes use of the poly function which be default orthogonalizes the polynomials (includes centering the x's and other things). In your formula there is no orthogonalization done and that is the likely difference. You can refit the model using raw=TRUE in the call to poly to get the raw coefficients that can be multiplied by $x$ and $x^2$.
You may also be interested in the Function function in the rms package which automates creating functions from fitted models.
Edit
Here is an example:
library(rms)
xx <- 1:25
yy <- 5 - 1.5*xx + 0.1*xx^2 + rnorm(25)
plot(xx,yy)
fit <- ols(yy ~ pol(xx,2))
mypred <- Function(fit)
curve(mypred, add=TRUE)
mypred( c(1,25, 3, 3.5))
You need to use the rms functions for fitting (ols and pol for this example instead of lm and poly).

Answer 2

If you want to calculate y-hat based on the model, you can just use predict!
Example:
set.seed(123)
my_dat <- data.frame(x=1:10, e=rnorm(10))
my_dat$y <- with(my_dat, x*2 + e)
my_lm <- lm(y~x, data=my_dat)
summary(my_lm)
Result:
Call:
lm(formula = y ~ x, data = my_dat)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-1.1348 -0.5624 -0.1393 0.3854 1.6814
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.5255 0.6673 0.787 0.454
x 1.9180 0.1075 17.835 1e-07 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 0.9768 on 8 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.9755, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9724
F-statistic: 318.1 on 1 and 8 DF, p-value: 1e-07
Now, instead of making a function like 0.5255 + x * 1.9180 manually, I just call predict for my_lm:
predict(my_lm, data.frame(x=11:20))
Same result as this (not counting minor errors from rounding the slope/intercept estimates):
0.5255 + (11:20) * 1.9180

Answer 3

If you are looking for actually visualizing or writing out a complex equation (e.g. something that has restricted cubic spline transformations), I recommend using the rms package, fitting your model, and using the latex function to see it in latex
my_lm <- ols(y~x, data=my_dat)
latex(my_lm)
Note you will need to render the latex code so as to see your equation. There are websites and, if you are using a Mac, Mac Tex software, that will render it for you.