drop1: Add or Drop All Possible Single Terms to/from a Model

In VGAM: Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models

Add or Drop All Possible Single Terms to/from a Model

Description

Compute all the single terms in the scope argument that can be added to or dropped from the model, fit those models and compute a table of the changes in fit.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'vglm'
add1(object, scope, test = c("none", "LRT"), k = 2, ...)
## S3 method for class 'vglm'
drop1(object, scope, test = c("none", "LRT"), k = 2, ...)

Arguments

object	a fitted vglm model object.
scope, k	See drop1.glm.
test	Same as drop1.glm but with fewer choices.
...	further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

These functions are a direct adaptation of add1.glm and drop1.glm for vglm-class objects. For drop1 methods, a missing scope is taken to be all terms in the model. The hierarchy is respected when considering terms to be added or dropped: all main effects contained in a second-order interaction must remain, and so on. In a scope formula . means ‘what is already there’.

Compared to add1.glm and drop1.glm these functions are simpler, e.g., there is no Cp, F and Rao (score) tests, x and scale arguments. Most models do not have a deviance, however twice the log-likelihood differences are used to test the significance of terms.

The default output table gives AIC, defined as minus twice log likelihood plus 2p where p is the rank of the model (the number of effective parameters). This is only defined up to an additive constant (like log-likelihoods).

Value

An object of class "anova" summarizing the differences in fit between the models.

Warning

In general, the same warnings in add1.glm and drop1.glm apply here. Furthermore, these functions have not been rigorously tested for all models, so treat the results cautiously and please report any bugs.

Care is needed to check that the constraint matrices of added terms are correct. Also, if object is of the form vglm(..., constraints = list(x1 = cm1, x2 = cm2)) then add1.vglm may fail because the constraints argument needs to have the constaint matrices for all terms.

Note

Most VGAM family functions do not compute a deviance, but instead the likelihood function is evaluated at the MLE. Hence a column name "Deviance" only appears for a few models; and almost always there is a column labelled "logLik".

See Also

step4vglm, vglm, extractAIC.vglm, trim.constraints, anova.vglm, backPain2, update.

Examples

data("backPain2", package = "VGAM")
summary(backPain2)
fit1 <- vglm(pain ~ x2 + x3 + x4, propodds, data = backPain2)
coef(fit1)
add1(fit1, scope = ~ x2 * x3 * x4, test = "LRT")
drop1(fit1, test = "LRT")
fit2 <- vglm(pain ~ x2 * x3 * x4, propodds, data = backPain2)
drop1(fit2)

VGAM documentation built on Sept. 18, 2024, 9:09 a.m.