AICcCustom: Compute AIC, AICc, QAIC, and QAICc from User-supplied Input

In AICcmodavg: Model Selection and Multimodel Inference Based on (Q)AIC(c)

Compute AIC, AICc, QAIC, and QAICc from User-supplied Input

Description

This function computes Akaike's information criterion (AIC), the second-order AIC (AICc), as well as their quasi-likelihood counterparts (QAIC, QAICc) from user-supplied input instead of extracting the values automatically from a model object. This function is particularly useful for output imported from other software or for model classes that are not currently supported by AICc.

Usage

AICcCustom(logL, K, return.K = FALSE, second.ord = TRUE, nobs = NULL,
           c.hat = 1)

Arguments

logL	the value of the model log-likelihood.
K	the number of estimated parameters in the model.
return.K	logical. If FALSE, the function returns the information criterion specified. If TRUE, the function returns K (number of estimated parameters) for a given model.
second.ord	logical. If TRUE, the function returns the second-order Akaike information criterion (i.e., AICc).
nobs	the sample size required to compute the AICc or QAICc.
c.hat	value of overdispersion parameter (i.e., variance inflation factor) such as that obtained from c_hat. Note that values of c.hat different from 1 are only appropriate for binomial GLM's with trials > 1 (i.e., success/trial or cbind(success, failure) syntax), with Poisson GLM's, single-season or dynamic occupancy models (MacKenzie et al. 2002, 2003), N-mixture models (Royle 2004, Dail and Madsen 2011), or capture-mark-recapture models (e.g., Lebreton et al. 1992). If c.hat > 1, AICcCustom will return the quasi-likelihood analogue of the information criterion requested.

Details

AICcCustom computes one of the following four information criteria:

Akaike's information criterion (AIC, Akaike 1973), the second-order or small sample AIC (AICc, Sugiura 1978, Hurvich and Tsai 1989, 1991), the quasi-likelihood AIC (QAIC, Burnham and Anderson 2002), and the quasi-likelihood AICc (QAICc, Burnham and Anderson 2002).

Value

AICcCustom returns the AIC, AICc, QAIC, or QAICc, or the number of estimated parameters, depending on the values of the arguments.

Note

The actual (Q)AIC(c) values are not really interesting in themselves, as they depend directly on the data, parameters estimated, and likelihood function. Furthermore, a single value does not tell much about model fit. Information criteria become relevant when compared to one another for a given data set and set of candidate models.

Author(s)

Marc J. Mazerolle

References

Akaike, H. (1973) Information theory as an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. In: Second International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 267–281. Petrov, B.N., Csaki, F., Eds, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest.

Burnham, K. P., Anderson, D. R. (2002) Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. Second edition. Springer: New York.

Dail, D., Madsen, L. (2011) Models for estimating abundance from repeated counts of an open population. Biometrics 67, 577–587.

Hurvich, C. M., Tsai, C.-L. (1989) Regression and time series model selection in small samples. Biometrika 76, 297–307.

Hurvich, C. M., Tsai, C.-L. (1991) Bias of the corrected AIC criterion for underfitted regression and time series models. Biometrika 78, 499–509.

Lebreton, J.-D., Burnham, K. P., Clobert, J., Anderson, D. R. (1992) Modeling survival and testing biological hypotheses using marked animals: a unified approach with case-studies. Ecological Monographs 62, 67–118.

MacKenzie, D. I., Nichols, J. D., Lachman, G. B., Droege, S., Royle, J. A., Langtimm, C. A. (2002) Estimating site occupancy rates when detection probabilities are less than one. Ecology 83, 2248–2255.

MacKenzie, D. I., Nichols, J. D., Hines, J. E., Knutson, M. G., Franklin, A. B. (2003) Estimating site occupancy, colonization, and local extinction when a species is detected imperfectly. Ecology 84, 2200–2207.

Royle, J. A. (2004) N-mixture models for estimating population size from spatially replicated counts. Biometrics 60, 108–115.

Sugiura, N. (1978) Further analysis of the data by Akaike's information criterion and the finite corrections. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods A7, 13–26.

See Also

AICc, aictabCustom, confset, evidence, c_hat, modavgCustom

Examples

##cement data from Burnham and Anderson (2002, p. 101)
data(cement)
##run multiple regression - the global model in Table 3.2
glob.mod <- lm(y ~ x1 + x2 + x3 + x4, data = cement)

##extract log-likelihood
LL <- logLik(glob.mod)[1]

##extract number of parameters
K.mod <- coef(glob.mod) + 1

##compute AICc with full likelihood
AICcCustom(LL, K.mod, nobs = nrow(cement))

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