[Rd] Bootstrapping stepAIC() with glm.nb()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You did not say what the problem was!

But you are asking that an object which is not in scope (index) be found a 
few levels down.  You should be able to fix this by substituting in the 
values in fn.  Here is one way:

         up.obj <- update(object, data = data[index[, i], ])
         Call <- up.obj$call
         Call$data <- data[index[, i], ]
         up.obj$call <- Call

(there are others).

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to Boostrap the stepAIC() procedure from package MASS for
> variety of model objects, i.e.,
>
> fn <- function(object, data, B = 2){
>    n <- nrow(data)
>    res <- vector(mode = "list", length = B)
>    index <- sample(n, n * B, replace = TRUE)
>    dim(index) <- c(n, B)
>    for (i in 1:B) {
>        up.obj <- update(object, data = data[index[, i], ])
>        res[[i]] <- stepAIC(up.obj, trace = FALSE)
>    }
>    res
> }
>
> ####################
>
> library(MASS)
>
>
> # 'glm' objects
> x1 <- runif(100, -4, 4)
> x2 <- runif(100, -4, 4)
> y <- 1 + 2 * x1 + rnorm(100, sd = 3)
> dat <- data.frame(y, x1, x2)
> glmFit <- glm(y ~ x1 + x2, data = dat)
> fn(glmFit, data = dat)
>
> # 'aov' objects
> quine.hi <- aov(log(Days + 2.5) ~ .^4, quine)
> fn(quine.hi, data = quine)
>
>
> However, for "negbin" objects returned by glm.nb() the following
> problem occurs:
>
> quine.nb <- glm.nb(Days ~ .^4, data = quine)
> fn(quine.nb, data = quine)
>
>
> Any hints to overcome this are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dimitris
>
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> Dimitris Rizopoulos
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> School of Public Health
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