similar to: Help on model selection using AICc

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

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

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

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?

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

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 I've been investigating using multi-model inference, based on calculating AIC and AIC weights, using the techniques outlined in Burnham and Anderson's (2002) book. However I notice a couple of emails in the R-help archive stating that there are errors in the technique. Are these errors associated with the particular implementation that B & A propose in their text, or is the

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

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

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

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 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

Dear R-helpers I have generated a suite of GLMs. To select the best model for each set, I am using the meta-analysis approach of de Luna and Skouras (Scand J Statist 30:113-128). Simply put, I am calculating AIC, AICc, BIC, etc., and then using whichever criterion minimizes APE (Accumulated Prediction Error from cross-validations on all model sets) to select models. My problem arises where I

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

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 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

A few general comments about stepwiseAIC and a suggestion of how to select models a) Apart form the problem, that stepwise selection is not a garanty to get the best model, you need to have a lot of data to avoid overfitting if your model includes 7 parameter plus interactions (> 10 observations per parameter is what you are ideally looking for). b) Have a look at Anderson and Burnham's

Dear R users, Would it be difficult to change the code of stepAIC (from the MASS library) to use AICc instead of AIC? It would be great to know of someone has tried this already. Best wishes Christoph.

oops, Forgot to cc to the list. Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: dr mike [mailto:dr.mike at ntlworld.com] Sent: 24 February 2005 19:21 To: 'Spencer Graves' Subject: RE: [R] Bayesian stepwise (was: Forward Stepwise regression based onpartial F test) Spencer, Obviously the problem is one of supersaturation. In view of that, are you aware of the following? A Two-Stage