O course! And for the same reason, my stupid comment should be ignored. -- Bert
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Ingmar Visser <i.vis...@uva.nl> wrote: >> It's fine. Just interpret them as you would any other (lower is better). >>> >>> >> And it is the printed logLik that is out of step here. log-likelihoods >> _should_ be negative. >> > > That is not quite the case; in models with small variances log-likelihoods > can easily become positive, consider eg: > >> dnorm(0,0,0.1,log=T) > [1] 1.383647 > > hth, Ingmar > > > >> -- >> David. >> >> >>> 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 >>>> >>> >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> Alameda, CA, USA >> >> >> ______________________________**________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[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. -- 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.
