Jarrett Byrnes <jebyrnes <at> ucdavis.edu> writes:
>
> I have a slight conundrum. I'm attempting to write a scrip that will
> take a number of objects (lm, glm, and lmer) and return AIC scores
> and weights. I've run into 3 problems, and was wondering if anyone
> had any pointers.
>
> 1) is there any convenient way to extract the name of the objects?
> Simply, if I have a vector of objects c(my.lm, my.lmer) and I want to
> get a character vector c("my.lm", "my.lmer"), how would one do this?
> I see this as far simpler than jumping into the ugly details of each
> object type and extracting coefficient lists and such - not to
> mention tidier.
Hmm. Can you be a little more specific?
If I do e.g.
> a = 1
> b = 2
> c = 3
> z <- c(a,b,c)
then z is [1 2 3] and there's no longer any way
to recover the names of the objects.
On the other hand,
> f <- function(...) {
+ print(deparse(substitute(...)))
+ }
> f(c(a,b,c))
[1] "c(a, b, c)"
and you could then use some combination of strsplit() or gsub()
to get the pieces you wanted.
I generally find it easier to work with named lists of model
objects:
L <- list(simplemodel=lm1,complexmodel=lm2)
and then names(L) gets you what you want.
>
> 2) I'm repeatedly getting the error
>
> Error in UseMethod("logLik") : no applicable method for "logLik"
>
> in a variety of different contexts. The first is if I have to get
> an AIC for an lmer object. AIC(my.lmer) give me the error above.
> However, I can circumvent this with a very silly solution -
>
> myAIC<-function(object) {a<-logLik(object)
> return(-2*a[1] +2*attr(a, 'df'))}
>
> I use this, and I do not get an error.
>
This may (?) be related to the NEWS item for R 2.6.2 RC:
o The AIC() S4 generic in package stats4 no longer disables
dispatch of S3 methods for AIC().
> 3) I do, however, get the above error if I have a vector of model
> objects. So, again, if I have something like model.list<-c(my.lm,
> my.lmer) or even just c(my.lm, my.lm2) and then call the following on
> the vector of models
>
> aiclist<-vector
> for(index in 1:length(model.list)){
> aiclist<-c(aiclist, myAIC(model.list[index]))
> }
>
> it again yields the Error in UseMethod("logLik"). Given that this is
> true either for lm, glm, or lmer objects, I'm guessing there's a more
> general issue here that I'm missing. Any pointers?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jarrett
>
By the way: I would be careful using AIC to do model selection
on lmer objects. In particular, the ugly "degrees of freedom"
issue rears its ugly head here -- see Burnham and White 2002
Burnham, K. P., and G. C. White. 2002. Evaluation of some random effects
methodology applicable to bird ringing data. Journal of Applied Statistics 29,
no. 1:245-264.
cheers
Ben Bolker
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