SDMtune (version 0.2.1)

aicc: AICc

Description

Compute the Akaike Information Criterion corrected for small samples size (Warren and Seifert, 2011).

Usage

aicc(model, env, parallel = FALSE)

Arguments

model

'>SDMmodel object.

env

stack containing the environmental variables.

parallel

logical, if TRUE it uses parallel computation, default is FALSE.

Value

The computed AICc

Details

The function is available only for Maxent and Maxnet methods. Parallel computation increases the speed only for large datasets due to the time necessary to create the cluster.

References

Warren D.L., Seifert S.N., (2011). Ecological niche modeling in Maxent: the importance of model complexity and the performance of model selection criteria. Ecological Applications, 21(2), 335<U+2013>342.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Acquire environmental variables
files <- list.files(path = file.path(system.file(package = "dismo"), "ex"),
                    pattern = "grd", full.names = TRUE)
predictors <- raster::stack(files)

# Prepare presence and background locations
p_coords <- virtualSp$presence
bg_coords <- virtualSp$background

# Create SWD object
data <- prepareSWD(species = "Virtual species", p = p_coords, a = bg_coords,
                   env = predictors, categorical = "biome")

# Train a model
model <- train(method = "Maxnet", data = data, fc = "l")

# Compute the AICc
aicc(model, predictors)

# }
# NOT RUN {
# Compute the AICc using parallel computation. This reduces the time only for
# large datasets, in this case it takes longer than the previous example due
# to the time used to start and stop a cluster
aicc(model, predictors, parallel = TRUE)
# }