MuMIn (version 1.48.4)

BGWeights: Bates-Granger minimal variance model weights

Description

Compute empirical weights based on out of sample forecast variances, following Bates and Granger (1969).

Usage

BGWeights(object, ..., data, force.update = FALSE)

Value

A numeric vector of model weights.

Arguments

object, ...

two or more fitted glm objects, or a list of such, or an "averaging" object.

data

a data frame containing the variables in the model.

force.update

if TRUE, the much less efficient method of updating glm function will be used rather than directly via glm.fit. This only applies to glms, in case of other model types update is always used.

Author

Carsten Dormann, Kamil Bartoń

Details

Bates-Granger model weights are calculated using prediction covariance. To get the estimate of prediction covariance, the models are fitted to randomly selected half of data and prediction is done on the remaining half. These predictions are then used to compute the variance-covariance between models, \(\Sigma\). Model weights are then calculated as \(w_{BG} = (1' \Sigma^{-1} 1)^{-1} 1 \Sigma^{-1} \), where \(1\) a vector of 1-s.

Bates-Granger model weights may be outside of the \([0,1]\) range, which may cause the averaged variances to be negative. Apparently this method works best when data is large.

References

Bates, J. M. and Granger, C. W. J. 1969 The combination of forecasts. Journal of the Operational Research Society 20, 451-468.

Dormann, C. et al. (2018) Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference. Ecological Monographs 88, 485–504.

See Also

Weights, model.avg

Other model weights: bootWeights(), cos2Weights(), jackknifeWeights(), stackingWeights()

Examples

fm <- glm(Prop ~ mortality + dose, family = binomial, Beetle, na.action = na.fail)
models <- lapply(dredge(fm, evaluate = FALSE), eval)
ma <- model.avg(models)

# this produces warnings because of negative variances:
set.seed(78)
Weights(ma) <- BGWeights(ma, data = Beetle)
coefTable(ma, full = TRUE)

# SE for prediction is not reliable if some or none of coefficient's SE
# are available
predict(ma, data = test.data, se.fit = TRUE)
coefTable(ma, full = TRUE)