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AIC-methods: Akaike Information Criteria

Description

Extracts the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and the corrected AIC (AICc) from fitted models of formal class glimML and possibly computes derived statistics.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'glimML':
AIC(object, \dots, k = 2)

Arguments

object
fitted model of formal class glimML (functions betabin or negbin).
...
optional list of fitted models separated by commas.
k
numeric scalar, with a default value set to 2, thus providing the regular AIC.

Details

$AIC = -2~\mbox{log-likelihood} + 2*n_{par}$, where $n_{par}$ represents the number of parameters in the fitted model. $AICc = AIC + 2 * n_{par} * (n_{par} + 1) / (n_{obs} - n_{par} + 1)$, where $n_{obs}$ is the number of observations used to compute the log-likelihood. It should be used when the number of fitted parameters is large compared to sample size, i.e., when $n_{obs} / n_{par} < 40$ (Hurvich and Tsai, 1995).

References

Burnham, K.P., Anderson, D.R., 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. New-York, Springer-Verlag, 496 p. Hurvich, C.M., Tsai, C.-L., 1995. Model selection for extended quasi-likelihood models in small samples. Biometrics, 51 (3): 1077-1084.

See Also

Examples in betabin and see AIC in package stats.