DIC {ramps}R Documentation

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 brian-j-smith@uiowa.edu

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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