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Dear Listers, I got this message when compiling a package: * creating pgirmess-manual.tex ... OK * checking pgirmess-manual.text ... ERROR LaTex errors when creating DVI version. This typically indicates Rd problems. The message is quite explicit but I struggled a lot before understanding that the trouble comes from a single file "selMod.rd" among 44 topics. Even though I have

Greetings, I have recently come into some confusion over weather or not AIC results for comparing among models requires that they be nested. Reading Burnham & Anderson (2002) they are explicit that nested models are not required, but other respected statisticians have suggested that nesting is a pre-requisite for comparison. Could anyone who feels strongly regarding either position

Do any R functions incorporate a sample sample size correction (e.g., Burnham and Anderson 1998). Thanks, Hank Stevens Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/botany/bot/henry.html http://www.muohio.edu/ecology

hello, could somebody refer me to the reason R uses -2*loglik + 2*(#param)+2 to calculate AIC? thank you -- Stoyan Iliev

Subject: Eliminate repeated components from a vector X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: fjmolina at lbl.gov FCC: /home/f/.xemacs/mail/sent Does anyone know how I can eliminate repeated elements from a vector?

Hi, I'm fitting poisson regression models to counts of birds in 1x1 km squares using several environmental variables as predictors. I do this in a stepwise way, using the stepAIC function. However the resulting models appear to be overparametrized, since too much variables were included. I would like to know if there is the possibility of fitting models by steps but using the AICc

Dear all, does anyone have r code to perform model-averaging of regression parameters by Akaike weights, and/or to do all-possible-subsets lm modelling that reports parameter estimates, AICc and number of parameters for each model? I have been looking for these in the archive but found none. (I am aware that many of you would warn me against these methods advocated by Burnham and Anderson

In a generalized linear model with k covariates, there are 2(kth power) - 1 possible models (excluding interactions). Awhile ago a posting to R-help suggested Model Selection and Multimodel Inference, 2nd ed, by Burnham and Anderson as a good source for understanding model selection. They recommend (page 71) computing AIC differences over all candidate models in the set of possible models. After

Dear all, Using the quasibinomial and quasipoisson families results in no AIC being calculated. However, a quasi AIC has actually been defined by Lebreton et al (1992). In the (in my opinon, at least) very interesting book by Burnham and Anderson (1998,2002) this QAIC (and also QAICc) is covered. Maybe this is something that could be implemented in R. Take a look at page 23 in this pdf:

hi folks, I'm trying to build a table that contains information about a series of General Linear Models in order to calculate Akaike weights and other measures to compare all models in the series. i have an issue with indexing models and extracting the information (loglikehood, AIC's, etc.) that I need to compile them into the table. Below is some sample code that illustrates my

> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of B??kony Veronika > Sent: 18 June 2005 14:00 > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] how 'stepAIC' selects? > > > Dear all, > Could anyone please tell me how 'step' or 'stepAIC' works? Does it >

Hi All, Sorry for this basic question as I am new to this R. I would like to know, is it possible to consider a matrix with some columns having numeric data and some other's with characters (strings) data? How do I get this type of data from a flat file. Thanks very much, mallika ____________________________________________________________________________ Mallika Veeramalai, Ph.D.,

Hello All; I need to run a multiple regression analysis and use Akaike's Information Criterion for model selection. I understand that this command will give the AIC value for specified models: AIC(object, ..., k = 2) with "..." meaning any other optional models for which I would like AIC values. But, how can I specify (in the place of "...") that I want R to

Dear All, I have a list of models(1000) which have variable scores from 20 different method. I would like to rank models using consensus approach based on high scores from different methods.Is there any function available in R for this purpose? I will appreciate any pointers in this regard. Thank you very much in Advance, Mallika

Hi I have two geostatistical models from geoR. An ordinary kriging model with AIC=-148.6 and a universal kriging model with AIC=-156.7, there are 345 data points. The improvement shown by the AIC by adding a trend component to the model seems quite small given the number of data points, is there a test to see if the improvement to the model fit is significant? Thanks David

Hello all, i hope you don't mind my off topic question. i want to use the Akaike criterion for variable selection in a regression model. Does anyone know some basic literature about that topic? Especially I'm interested in answers to the following questions: 1. Has (and if so how has) the criterion to be modified, if i estimate the transformations of the variables too? 2. How is the

I am creating habitat selection models for caribou and other species with data collected from GPS collars. In my current situation the radio-collars recorded the locations of 30 caribou every 6 hours. I am then comparing resources used at caribou locations to random locations using logistic regression (standard habitat analysis). The data is therefore highly autocorrelated and this causes Type

Odette > Wondering how can I generate "Akaike weight" with R? I know the description, > but is there any function to generate by R on the web-site or R library? > I am using GLM or GLMM (family=binomial), so would be appreciated if you > help me. You could have a look at this. http://bm2.genes.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/R_current/library/aod/man/summary.aic.html Which is in the OAD

I have a data file with indicates pretest scores for a linguistics experiment. The data are in long form so for each of 33 subjects there are 400 rows, one for each item on the test, and there is a column called ‘Correct’ that shows ‘C’ for a correct response and ‘E’ for an incorrect response. I am trying to write a formula that will create a vector that indicates the number of correct answers

Hi all, Could anybody please help me understand AIC and BIC and especially why do they make sense? Furthermore, I am trying to devise a new metric related to the model selection in the financial asset management industry. As you know the industry uses Sharpe Ratio as the main performance benchmark, which is the annualized mean of returns divided by the annualized standard deviation of returns.