DIC: Deviance Information Criterion

In brian-j-smith/ramps: Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling with RAMPS

Deviance Information Criterion

Description

Calculates the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) for comparisons of georamps model fits.

Usage

   ## S3 method for class 'ramps'
DIC(object, ...)

Arguments

object	object returned by georamps.
...	some methods for this generic require additional arguments. None are used in this method.

Value

An numeric vector with the following two elements:

DIC	value of the Deviance Information Criterion.
pD	effective number of model parameters.

Author(s)

Brian Smith [e-mail]

References

Spiegelhalter, D.J., Best, N.G., Carlin, B.P., and van der Linde, A. (2002) “Bayesian Measures of Model Complexity and Fit”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B, 64, 583-639.

See Also

georamps

Examples

## DIC calculation for georamps example results

## Not run: 
DIC(NURE.fit)

## End(Not run)

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