similar to: MASS:::dropterm.glm() and MASS:::addterm.glm() should use ... for extractAIC()

Dear all, I have tried to modify the code of MASS:::stepAIC.default(), dropterm() and addterm() to use AICc instead of AIC for model selection. The code is appended below. Somehow the calculations are still not correct and I would be grateful if anyone could have a look at what might be wrong with this code... Here is a working example: ## require(nlme) model1=lme(distance ~ age + Sex, data =

I would like test AICc as a criteria for model selection for a glm using stepAIC() from MASS package. Based on various information available in WEB, stepAIC() use extractAIC() to get the criteria used for model selection. I have created a new extractAIC() function (and extractAIC.glm() and extractAIC.lm() ones) that use a new parameter criteria that can be AIC, BIC or AICc. It works as

Folks, I'm using stepAIC(MASS) to do some automated, exploratory, model selection for binomial and Poisson glm models in R 1.3. Because I wanted to experiment with the small-sample correction AICc, I dug around in the code for the functions glm.fit stepAIC dropterm.glm addterm.glm extractAIC.glm and came across something I just don't understand. stepAIC() passes dropterm.glm() a

Hello, I'm currently dealing with a rather strange problem when using the function "stepAIC" ("MASS" package). The setting is the following: From model learning data sets ("learndata"), I want to be able to build prediction functions (in order to save them in a file for further use). This is done by the function "pred.function" (see below). Therein,

--Multipart_Wed_Feb__4_12:25:40_1998-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Jim, I am relating your message to R-devel. This should be discussed in a broader audience; I am not an expert on GLM's, I know you are and others on this group also... R-develers, please CC to Jim Lindsey (on this topic), since he hasn't been part of the R-devel list for a while.. BTW: I will be gone

I am trying to replicate the first example from stepAIC from the MASS package with my own dataset but am running into error. If someone can point where I have gone wrong, I would appreciate it very much. Here is an example : set.seed(1) df <- data.frame( x1=rnorm(1000), x2=rnorm(1000), x3=rnorm(1000) ) df$y <- 0.5*df$x1 + rnorm(1000, mean=8, sd=0.5) # pairs(df); head(df) lo <-

Dear R Help, I have noticed some inconsistent behaviour of add1 and drop1 with a weighted linear model, which affects the interpretation of the results. I have these data to fit with a linear model, I want to weight them by the relative size of the geographical areas they represent. _________________________________________________________________________________________ > example

To compare two different models, I've compared the result of using dropterm() on both. Single term deletions Model: growth ~ days + I(days^0.5) Df Sum of Sq RSS AIC <none> 2.8750 -0.2290 days 1 4.8594 7.7344 4.6984 I(days^0.5) 1 0.0234 2.8984 -2.1722 AND Single term deletions Model: growth ~ days + I(days^2) Df Sum

I have been implementing a proposal of Jim Lindsey for glm(.) to return AIC values, and print.glm(.) and print.summary.glm(.) printing them.... however: >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Lindsey <jlindsey@luc.ac.be> writes: Jim> The problem still remains of getting the correct AIC when the user Jim> wants the scale parameter to be fixed. (The calculation should

I have a question about stepAIC and extractAIC and why they can produce different answers. Here's a stepAIC result (slightly edited - I removed the warning about noninteger #successes): stepAIC(glm(formula = (Morbid_70_79/Present_70_79) ~ 1 + Cohort + Cohort2, family = binomial, data = ghs_70_79, subset = ghs_70_full),direction = c("backward")) Start: AIC=3151.41

Problem: I am sorting through model selection process for first time and want to make sure that I have used glm, stepAIC, and update correctly. Something is strange because I get a different result between: 1) a glm of 12 predictor variables followed by a stepAIC where all interactions are considered and then an update to remove one specific interaction. vs. 2) entering all the terms

Dear help community, I'm a R-beginner and use it for my master thesis. I've got a mixed model and want to analyse it with lme. There are a lot Cofactors that coult be relevant. To extract the important ones I want to do the stepAIC, but always get an error warning. Structure of my data: data.frame': 72 obs. of 54 variables: $ Block : Factor w/ 3 levels

Hi there - I am using R1.5.1 on WinNT and the latest MASS (Venables and Ripley) library. Running the following code: >minimod<-glm(miniSF~gtbt*f.batch+log(mxjd),data=gtbt,family="binomial") >summary(minimod,cor=F) Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) (Intercept) 0.91561 0.32655 2.804 0.005049 ** gtbtgt 0.47171

dear R users, I have fit the lm() on a mtrix of responses. i.e M1 = lm(cbind(R1,R2)~ X+Y+0). When i use summary(M1), it shows details for R1 and R2 separately. Now i want to use stepAIC on these models. But when i use stepAIC(M1) an error message comes saying that dropterm.mlm is not implemented. What is the way out to use stepAIC in such cases. regards,

Hi, I encountered a problem when I am trying to write my own function which contains another function. To simplify a problem, I tried the following simplified function, hope someone can idenfity the problem for me. I have a simple data frame called "testdata" as following: >

Hi everybody I am trying to run the next code but I have the next problem Y1<-cbind(score.sol, score.com.ext, score.pur) > vol.lm<-lm(Y1~1, data=vol14.df) > library(MASS) > stepAIC(vol.lm,~fsex+fjob+fage+fstudies,data=vol14.df) Start: AIC=504.83 Y1 ~ 1 Error in addterm.mlm(fit, scope$add, scale = scale, trace = max(0, trace - : no addterm method implemented for

Hi, I'm working on fitting a glm model to my data using Gamma error structure and reciprocal link. I've been using dropterm (MASS) in the model simplification process, but the F values from analysis of deviance tables reported by dropterm and anova functions are different - sometimes significantly so. However, the reported residual deviances, degrees of freedom, etc. are not different.

I'm trying to use 'dropterm' (from MASS) in a function along the lines run <- function(dat){ fit <- (something)(Y ~ (something), data = dat) lr <- dropterm(fit, test = "Chisq") return(fit, lr) } but running 'run' I get (those scoping rules again...?) Error in terms.formula(formula, special, data = data) : Object "dat" not found

Although the 'spatial' documentation doesn't mention that extractAIC works, it does seem to give an output. I may have misunderstood, but shouldn't the following give at least the same d.f.? > library(spatial) > data(topo, package="MASS") > extractAIC(surf.ls(2, topo)) [1] 46.0000 437.5059 > extractAIC(lm(z ~ x+I(x^2)+y+I(y^2)+x:y, topo)) [1]

Dear R users: I am looking for the source code for the R function extractAIC. Type the function name doesn't help: > extractAIC function (fit, scale, k = 2, ...) UseMethod("extractAIC") <environment: namespace:stats> And when I search it in the R source code, the best I can find is in (R source root)/library/stats/R/add.R: extractAIC <- function(fit, scale, k = 2,