[R] AIC

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, juli g. pausas wrote:

> Dear R collegues,
> I'm trying to understand what's AIC in R (ver. 1.3.1), and I'm getting a
> different answer if I look at the AIC(of the fitted model) or the aic in
> the summary( of the fitted model). Is this correct? Can somebody explain
> me the difference between the two values? or Is the AIC criterion not
> appropiated for Poisson models?

It's the AIC _function_ that is inappropriate for glm models.  There is no
glm method, so the lm method is used.

Martin: I think you moved AIC and logLik into base R: this needs sorting
out.

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