[R] How can I extract the AIC score from a mixed model object produced using lmer?

[David Hewitt]

David Barron-3 wrote:
> 
> You can calculate the AIC as follows:
> 
> (fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy))
> aic1 <- AIC(logLik(fm1))
> 
> 

Is AIC() [extractAIC()] "valid" for models with random effects? I noticed
that the help page for extractAIC() does not list models with random
effects. I think this boils down to the difference between the likelihoods
for models with and without random effects, and I don't know. Just
curious...



> On 12/18/07, Peter H Singleton <psingleton at fs.fed.us> wrote:
>>
>> I am running a series of candidate mixed models using lmer (package lme4)
>> and I'd like to be able to compile a list of the AIC scores for those
>> models so that I can quickly summarize and rank the models by AIC. When I
>> do logistic regression, I can easily generate this kind of list by
>> creating
>> the model objects using glm, and doing:
>>
>> > md <- c("md1.lr", "md2.lr", "md3.lr")
>> > aic <- c(md1.lr$aic, md2.lr$aic, md3.lr$aic)
>> > aic2 <- cbind(md, aic)
>>
>> but when I try to extract the AIC score from the model object produced by
>> lmer I get:
>>
>> > md1.lme$aic
>> NULL
>> Warning message:
>> In md1.lme$aic : $ operator not defined for this S4 class, returning NULL
>>
>> So... How do I query the AIC value out of a mixed model object created by
>> lmer?
>>
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