DIC function

Deviance Information Criterion

Calculates the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) for comparisons of georamps model fits.

## S3 method for class 'ramps'
DIC(object, ...)

Arguments

• object: object returned by georamps.
• ...: some methods for this generic require additional arguments. None are used in this method.

Returns

An numeric vector with the following two elements: - DIC: value of the Deviance Information Criterion.

• pD: effective number of model parameters.

References

Spiegelhalter, D.J., Best, N.G., Carlin, B.P., and van der Linde, A. (2002) Bayesian Measures of Model Complexity and Fit , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B, 64, 583-639.

Author(s)

Brian Smith brian-j-smith@uiowa.edu

See Also

georamps

Examples

## DIC calculation for georamps example results

## Not run:

DIC(NURE.fit)
## End(Not run)