R2BayesX (version 1.1-5)

DIC: Deviance Information Criterion

Description

Generic function returning the deviance information criteriom of a fitted model object.

Usage

DIC(object, ...)
# S3 method for bayesx
DIC(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of class "bayesx".

...

specify for which model the criterion should be returned, e.g. type model = 1 to obtain the value for the first model. Only meaningful if object contains of more than one model.

Author

Nikolaus Umlauf, Thomas Kneib, Stefan Lang, Achim Zeileis.

See Also

bayesx.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## generate some data
set.seed(121)
n <- 200

## regressors
dat <- data.frame(x = runif(n, -3, 3))

## generate response 
dat$y <- with(dat, 1.5 + sin(x) + rnorm(n, sd = 0.6))

## estimate model
b <- bayesx(y ~ sx(x), data = dat, method = "MCMC")

## extract DIC
DIC(b)
}