similar to: behaviour of BIC and AICc code

Hi, I'm actually trying to rank a set of candidate models with an information criterion (AICc, QIC, BIC). The problem I have is that I use mixed-effect cox regression only available with the package {coxme} (see the example below). #Model1 >spring.cox <- coxme (Surv(start, stop, Real_rand) ~ strata(Paired)+R4+R3+R2+(R3|Individual), spring) I've already found some explications in

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

Hello, I am modelling in glmmADMB count data (I´m using a negative binomial distribution to avoid possitive overdispersion) with four fixed and one random effect. I´m also using MuMIn package to calculate the AICc and also to model averaging using the function dredge. What I do not understand is why dredge calculates a different value of the AICc and degrees of freedom than the function AICc

I am fitting logistic regression models, by defining my own link function, and would like to get AICc values. Using the glm command gives a value for AIC, but I haven't been able to get R to convert that to AICc. Is there a code that has already been written for this? Right now I am just putting the AIC values into an excel spreadsheet and calculating AICc, likelihood, and AIC

I have a case-control study that I'm analysing using the conditional logistic regression function clogit from the survival package. I would like to calculate the AICc of the models I fit using clogit. I have a variety of scripts that can calculate AICc for models with a logLik method, but clogit does not appear to use this method. Is there a way I can calculate AICc from clogit in R? Many

How can I extract K (number of parameters) from an AIC calculation, both to report K itself and to calculate AICc? I'm aware of the conversion from AIC -> AICc, where AICc = AIC + 2K(K+1)/(n-K-1), but not sure of how K is calculated or how to extract that value from either an AIC or logLik calculation. This is probably more of a basic statistics question than an R question, but I thank

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

Hi I get the following error when I try and get the AICc for a gls regression using qpcR: > AICc(gls1) Loading required package: nlme Error in n/(n - p - 1) : 'n' is missing My gls is like this: > gls1 Generalized least squares fit by REML Model: thercarnmax ~ therherbmax Data: NULL Log-restricted-likelihood: 2.328125 Coefficients: (Intercept) therherbmax 1.6441405

Hi I'm trying to fit arima models with the arima() function and I have two questions. ###### ##1. ## ###### I have n observations for my time series. Now, no matter what arima(p,d,q)- model I fit, I always get n residuals. How is that possible? For example: If I try this out myself on an AR(1) and calculate the fitted values from the estimated coefficients I can calculate n-1 residuals.

Hi I'm trying to replicate Smith et al.'s (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6008/1216.abstract) findings by fitting their Gompertz and logistic models to their data (given in their supplement). I'm doing this as I want to then apply the equations to my own data. Try as a might, I can't quite replicate them. Any thoughts why are much appreciated. I've tried contacting the

Dear members of the list, I'm fitting poisson regression models using stepAIC that appear to be overparametrized. I would like to know if there is the possibility of fitting models by steps but using the AICc instead of AIC. Best wishes German Lopez

Hi, I am using 'best.arima' function from forecast package to obtain point forecast for a time series data set. The documentation says it utilizes AIC value to select best ARIMA model. But in my case the sample size very small - 26 observations (demand data). Is it the right to use AIC value for model selection in this case. Should I use AICc instead of AIC. If so how can I modify

Dear R-listers, I have a little problem with a boxplot and I hope you can help me figuring it out. I'll try to make up some data to illustrate the issue. Sorry, if my procedures look naive, but these are my first steps in R. Any comments and/or suggestions are very welcome. let's create a vector var1: var1 <- rnorm(100) and 5 five logical vectors. In this case the vectors don't

Hi all, First: I have a small line of code I'm applying to a variable which will be placed in a matrix table for latex output of accuracy measures: acc.aarima <- signif(accuracy(forecast(auto.arima(tix_ts, stepwise=FALSE), h=365)), digits=3). The time series referred to is univariate (daily counts from 12-10-2010 until 5-8-2010 (so not 2 full periods of data)), and I'm working on

Hi All: the package "MuMIn" can be used to select the model based on AIC or AICc. The code is as follows: data(Cement) lm1 <- lm(y ~ ., data = Cement) dd <- dredge(lm1,rank="AIC") print(dd) If I want to select the model by BIC, what code do I need to use? And when to select the best model based on AIC, what the differences between the function "dredge" in

Hello, I'm doing a comparative analysis of mammal brain and body size data. I'm following Charlie Nunn and Natalie Cooper's instructions for "Running PGLS in R using caper". I run into the following error when I create my comparative dataset, combining my phylogenetic tree (mammaltree) and taxon measures (mammaldata): "Error in phy$node.label[which(newNb > 0) -

Hello: I have a series of newspaper articles from a Canadian newspaper database (Canadian Newsstand) that look just like below. I've read through this vignette (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm/vignettes/extensions.pdf) about creating a custom reader to extract meta-data, but I can't understand how to apply this in the context of a text document, rather than in the tabular format

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 =

Hello List, I was wondering if a package or piece of code exists that will allow all possible subsets regression model selection within program R. I have already looked at step(AIC) which does not test differing combinations of variables within a model as far as I can tell. In addition I tried to use the leaps command, but that does not use the criterion I am looking for. Any help or advice

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