flexmix (version 2.3-9)

EIC: Entropic measure information criterion

Description

Compute the Entropic measure Information criterion for model selection.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'flexmix':
EIC(object, \dots)
## S3 method for class 'stepFlexmix':
EIC(object, \dots)

Arguments

object

see Methods section below

...

Some methods for this generic function may take additional, optional arguments. At present none do.

Value

• Returns a numeric vector with the corresponding EIC value(s).

References

V. Ramaswamy, W. S. DeSarbo, D. J. Reibstein, and W. T. Robinson. An empirical pooling approach for estimating marketing mix elasticities with PIMS data. Marketing Science, 12(1), 103--124, 1993.

Examples

data("NPreg", package = "flexmix")
ex1 <- flexmix(yn~x+I(x^2), data=NPreg, k=2)
EIC(ex1)