[R] Re strict AIC comparison to succesful models?

Ben Bolker bolker at ufl.edu
Thu Jun 11 21:08:30 CEST 2009




Manuel Morales wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm doing a bootstrap analysis where some models occasionally fail to
> converge. I'd like to automate the process of restricting AIC to the
> models that do converge. A contrived example of what I'd like to do is
> below:
> 
> resp <- c(1,1,2)
> pred <- c(1,2,3)
> 
> m1 <- lm(resp~pred)
> m2 <- lm(resp~poly(pred,2))
> m3 <- lm(resp~poly(pred,3)) # Fails, obviously
> 
> ## Some test to see which models were successful
> models <- test(m1,m2,m3)
> 

    How about 

models <- list(m1,m2,m3)
is.OK <- sapply(models,test)
do.call(AIC,models[is.OK])

  ?

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