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Hi, I used the bic.surv function, S-PLUS functions developed by Chris Volinsky http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/bma.html, without problems with S-PLUS. I have to use it with R but I am face with a problem: this function call a fortran routine named "leaps" (answer <- .Fortran("leaps", arguments)). I loaded the leaps library, and the leaps function...

Dear friends. On the Bayesian averaging homepage http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/bma.html I found some S code some of which perhaps may run in R. There was a call to an algorithm possibly within S but not supported by R 64.1: "leaps and bounds". I guess it is a minimization step. Can anyone clarify the algorithm and perhaps even give a pointer to some code ? I guess...

...gless since some observations are only a few days long. With n at the denominator (Letué's criteria), the penalized term would be so low that it's like not having it: >log(7000)/7000 [1] 0.001264809 (where loglik from summary(cox.fit) range from -155 to -175, dependig on the model) b) Volinsky & Raftery "propose a revision of the penalty term in BIC so that the penalty is defined in terms of the number of uncensored events instead of the number of observations." (Volinsky & Raftery , Bayesian Information Criterion for Censored Survival Models, June 16, 1999, http://ww...

Hi everyone. There's been several threads on baseline hazard in Cox model but I think they were all on cumulative baseline hazard, for instance http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/01a/0464.html http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/01a/0436.html "basehaz" in package survival seems to do a cumulative hazard. extract from the basehaz function: sfit <- survfit(fit) H

HI, List I want to know weather any body has used BMA Package for model averaging for prediction of future values.....What are the paprmeters we have to suplly to the model. Any script for the same. thanks in advance ANIL KUMAR( METEOROLOGIST) LRF SECTION NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER ADGM(RESEARCH) INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT SHIVIJI NAGAR PUNE-411005 INDIA MOBILE +919422023277

DeaR ComRades, This is a quote from a News article in Science's 11-February issue, about competitions to model data: "For Chris Raimondi, a search-engine expert based in Baltimore, Maryland, and winner of the HIV-treatment competition, the Kaggle contest motivated him to hone his skills in a newly learned computer language called R, which he used to encode the winning data model.