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Diagnostic Analysis Using Forward Search Procedure for Various Models Diagnostic Analysis Using Forward Search Procedure for Various Models

Description

Identifies potential data outliers and their impact on estimates and analyses. Tool for evaluation of study credibility. Uses the forward search approach of Atkinson and Riani, "Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis", 2000,<ISBN: o-387-95017-6> to prepare descriptive statistics of a dataset that is to be analyzed by functions lm {stats}, glm {stats}, nls {stats}, lme {nlme}, or coxph {survival}, or their equivalent in another language. Includes graphics functions to display the descriptive statistics.

Details

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Ensure that data frame has a leading column of observation numbers. Run forsearch_foo to create a file of diagnostic statistics to be used as input to such plotting functions as plotdiag.residuals, plotdiag.params.fixed, plotdiag.params.random, plotdiag.s2, plotdiag,leverage, and plotdiag.Cook. The file of diagnostic statistics can be voluminous, and the utility function showme displays the output more succinctly. Plotting of statistics for fixed and for random coefficients is limited by graphical restraints in some cases. The function identifyCoeffs provides a set of indexing codes so that plotdiag.params.random can display diagnostics for selected fixed or random model parameters. The function identifyFixedCoeffs does the same for lm models.

Author(s)

William R. Fairweather, Flower Valley Consulting, Inc., Silver Spring MD USA William Fairweather [aut, cre]

Maintainer: William Fairweather <wrf343@flowervalleyconsulting.com> William R. Fairweather <wrf343 AT flowervalleyconsulting DOT com>

References

Atkinson, A and M Riani. Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis, Springer, New York, 2000. Pinheiro, JC and DM Bates. Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus, Springer, New York, 2000.


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