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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

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

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 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'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

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

Hello, I am comparing models made with nlme functions and non-nlme functions, based on Akaike's AIC. The AIC values I get for exactly the same model formulation --for example a linear model with no random effects fit with gls and lm, respectively-- do not fit, although the values of the four model parameters are exactly the same. For example: m1 <- gls(height ~ age, data = Loblolly) m2

Dear R users (r-help@r-project.org), The definition of AIC (Akaike information criterion) for normal error models has just been changed. Please refer to the paper below on this matter. Eq.(22) is the new definition. The essential part is RSS(n+q+1)/(n-q-3); it is close to GCV. The paper is temporarily available at the "Papers In Press" place. Kunio Takezawa(2012): A Revision of

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

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 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! I am using package "VAR". I've fitted my model: mymodel<-VAR(mydata,myp,type="const") I can extract the Log Liklihood for THE WHOLE MODEL: logLik(mymodel) How could I calculate (other than manually) the corresponding Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)? I tried AIC - but it does not take mymodel: AIC(mymodel) # numeric(0) Thank you! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski

Hello, I'm trying to use AIC to choose between 2 models with positive, continuous response variables and different error distributions (specifically a Gamma GLM with log link and a normal linear model for log(y)). I understand that in some cases it may not be possible (or necessary) to discriminate between these two distributions. However, for the normal linear model I noticed a discrepancy

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I have a slight conundrum. I'm attempting to write a scrip that will take a number of objects (lm, glm, and lmer) and return AIC scores and weights. I've run into 3 problems, and was wondering if anyone had any pointers. 1) is there any convenient way to extract the name of the objects? Simply, if I have a vector of objects c(my.lm, my.lmer) and I want to get a character

Dear All 1) I'm fitting spatial CAR models using R2Winbugs and although everything seems to go reasonably well (or I think so) the next message appears from WINBUGS 1.4 window: gen.inits() Command #Bugs: gen.inits cannot be executed (is greyed out) The question is if this message means that something is wrong and the results are consequently wrong, or Can I assume it as a simple warning

Dear all, I am a little problem. In the help, AIC = - 2log L + k*edf. When the model is linear, the help said " -2log L is the deviance ". I have a model toto.lm with one output and three input where deviance(toto.lm) = 8.027 and edf =4. But AIC = -31.55. I don't understand why? Many thanks. Jean LEJEUNE Universit? de CAEN (France)

Dear listers, Here we have a strange result we can hardly cope with. We want to compare a null mixed model with a mixed model with one independent variable. > lmmedt1<-lme(mediane~1, random=~1|site, na.action=na.omit, data=bdd2) > lmmedt9<-lme(mediane~log(0.0001+transat), random=~1|site, na.action=na.omit, data=bdd2) Using the Akaike Criterion and selMod of the package pgirmess

Hello, I'd like to say that it's clear when an independent variable can be ruled out generally speaking; on the other hand in R's AIC with bbmle, if one finds a better AIC value for a model without the given independent variable, versus the same model with, can we say that the independent variable is not likely to be significant(in the ordinary sense!)? That is, having made a lot of