| logLik.gam {mgcv} | R Documentation |
Function to extract the log-likelihood for a fitted gam
model (note that the models are usually fitted by penalized likelihood maximization).
logLik.gam(object,...)
object |
fitted model objects of class gam as produced by gam(). |
... |
un-used in this case |
Modification of logLik.glm which corrects the degrees of
freedom for use with gam objects.
The function is provided so that AIC functions correctly with
gam objects, and uses the appropriate degrees of freedom (accounting
for penalization). Note, when using AIC for penalized models, that the
degrees of freedom are the effective degrees of freedom and not the number of
parameters, and the model maximizes the penalized likelihood, not the actual
likelihood! This seems to be reasonably well founded for the known scale
parameter case (see Hastie and Tibshirani, 1990, section 6.8.3), and in fact
in this case the default smoothing parameter estimation criterion is
effectively this modified AIC.
Standard logLik object: see logLik.
Simon N. Wood simon.wood@r-project.org based directly on logLik.glm
Hastie and Tibshirani, 1990, Generalized Additive Models.