similar to: Error in calling stepAIC() from within a function

Hi, I am experiencing a baffling behaviour of stepAIC(), and I hope to get any advice/help on this. Greatly appreciate any kind advice given. I am using stepAIC() to, say, select a model via stepwise selection method. R Version : 1.7.1 Windows ME Many thanks! ***Issue : When stepAIC() is placed within a function, it seems that stepAIC() cannot detect the data matrix, and the program is

Hi, I have a data file which contains multiple data types (char and numeric) alongside with line spaces, tabs and spaces. I hope to extract out the numeric blocks of the data, probably as matrices or dataframes where each line in the data block is a corresponding row in the dataframe/ matrix. I have tried using many R read functions but they do not seem to yield the appropriate structure that

Hi, I would like to generate a correlation matrix with a particular structure. For example, a 3n x 3n matrix : A_(nxn) aI_(nxn) bI_(nxn) aI_(nxn) A_(nxn) cI_(nxn) aI_(nxn) cI_(nxn) A_(nxn) where - A_(nxn) is a *specified* symmetric, positive definite nxn matrix. - I_(nxn) is an identity matrix of order n - a, b, c are (any) real numbers Many attempts have been unsuccessful because a

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Hi, I am getting errors of the following kind. I can't seem to point the source of the error. I would greatly appreciate any advice. Many thanks and good day, -Melinda Error message : ---------------- "Ran out of iterations and did not converge in: fitter(X, Y, strats, offset, init, control, weights = weights,..." Details : --------- E is a vector of survival times (or censored

Hi, First of all, thanks for the great work on R in general, and MASS in particular. It's been a life saver for me many times. However, I think I've discovered a bug. It seems that, when I use weights during an initial least-squares regression fit, and later try to add terms using stepAIC(), it uses the weights when looking to remove terms, but not when looking to add them:

Based on the stepAIC help, I have assumed that it only was for lm, aov, and glm models. I gather from the following correspondence that it also works with lme models. Thomas Lumley 07:40 a.m. 28/04/03 -0700 4 Re: [R] stepAIC/lme problem (1.7.0 only) Prof Brian Ripley 04:19 p.m. 28/04/03 +0100 6 Re: [R] stepAIC/lme problem (1.7.0 only) Prof Brian Ripley 06:09 p.m. 29/04/03 +0100 6 Re: [R]

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to run the stepAIC function starting with the NULL model. I can call the null model (e.g., lm(y ~ NULL)), but using this object in stepAIC doesn't seem to work. The objective is to calculate AICc. This can be done if stepAIC can be run starting with the NULL model; the (2p(p-1)/(n-p-1))to get AICc would be added to the final step AIC value. Can

Hello R-Users,   I have one binary dependent variable and a set of independent variables (glm(formula,…,family=”binomial”) ) and I am using the function stepAIC (“MASS”) for choosing an optimal model. However I am not sure if stepAIC considers significance properties like Likelihood ratio test and Wald test (see example below).     > y <- rbinom(30,1,0.4) > x1 <- rnorm(30) > x2

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

Failed? What was the error message? Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Stephen O'hagan <SOhagan at manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > I'm trying to use boot.stepAIC for

Hi - I use stepAIC to automatically select the model. The stepAIC was applied on polr as follow:objPolr <- polr(formula=myformula, data=dat, method=METHOD);objPolr.step <- stepAIC(objPolr, trace=T);Then R complaints that it doesn't know about 'dat' when it executes the second line. Below is the exact error that I got when executing the stepAIC line above:Error in eval(expr,

The error is "the model fit failed in 50 bootstrap samples Error: non-character argument" Cheers, SOH. On 22/08/2017 17:52, Bert Gunter wrote: > Failed? What was the error message? > > Cheers, > > Bert > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along > and sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka

SImplify your call to lm using the "." argument instead of manipulating formulas. > strt <- lm(y1 ~ ., data = dat) and you do not need to explicitly specify the "1+" on the rhs for lm, so > frm2<-as.formula(paste(trg," ~ ", paste(xvars,collapse = "+"))) works fine, too. Anyway, doing this gives (but see end of output)" bst <-

I can use stepAIC on an lme object in 1.6.2, but I get the following error if I try to do the same in 1.7.0: Error in lme(fixed = resp ~ cov1 + cov2, data = a, random = structure(list( : unused argument(s) (formula ...) Does anybody know why? Here's an example: library(nlme) library(MASS) a <- data.frame( resp=rnorm(250), cov1=rnorm(250), cov2=rnorm(250),

Hello, I have some trouble using step() and stepAIC() functions. I'm predicting recruitment against several factors for different plant species using a negative binomial glm. Sometimes, summary(step(model)) or summary(stepAIC(model) does not select the best model (lowest AIC) but just stops before. For some species, step() works and stepAIC don't and in others, it's the opposite.

This is a question at the border between stats and r. When I do a glm with many potential effects, and select a model using stepAIC, many independent variables are selected even if there are no relationship between dependent variable and the effects (all are random numbers). Do someone has a solution to prevent this effect ? Is it related to Bonferoni correction ? Is there is a ratio of

OK, here's the problem. Continuing with your example: strt1 <- lm(y1 ~1, dat) strt2 <- lm(frm1,dat) > strt1 Call: lm(formula = y1 ~ 1, data = dat) Coefficients: (Intercept) 41.73 > strt2 Call: lm(formula = frm1, data = dat) Coefficients: (Intercept) 41.73 Note that the formula objects of the lm object are different: strt2 does not evaluate the formula. So

Hello, I am using the function stepAIC (library MASS) to run a backward elimination on my linear regression. The new model stepAIC calculates contains coefficients that have a Pr(>|t|) value below 0.1, but I'd like to have only coefficients with 0.001 or below. How can I change the stop criterion for stepAIC, so that it is more strict? There is a parameter "steps", but it is

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,