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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Jeremy Miles <jeremy.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's fine. Just interpret them as you would any other (lower is better). > I don't think so. I believe all 3 values are the negative of what they should be. AIC is defined as -2*log(L) + k*{degrees of freedom for model) . BIC is similar (different k's). This should be positive and, as you said, the smaller the better. So if the signs are reversed, models with lower absolute AIC and BIC -- bigger negative AIC and BIC -- is what you want. However, this really needs comment by an expert, which I ain't. I also suggest you post to r-sig-mixed-models, since gls is an nlme function. Cheers, Bert > > On 22 August 2012 16:43, Gary Dong <pdxgary...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear R users, >> >> I obtained negative AIC and BIC and positive Loglik values in a gls model. >> Is this normal? how should I interpret them? Thanks! >> >> AIC BIC logLik >> -659.978 -587.5541 345.989 >> >> Best >> Gary >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.