You need the models to be NESTED for this test to be valid. Look up `analysis of deviance' in your textbooks.

You get the error because you have two unnested models with the same number of parameters, so the F numerator is divided by 0. (But this is merely a symptom of incorrect usage.)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jan Verbesselt wrote:

Dear R-list,

*When comparing two logistic regression models with the anova CHi test, I
obtain the following error: (there are no NA's in the time series). How can
this be solved such that I can compare two models on the same dataset were
different explanatory variables are used?


l.KBDI <- glm(zna.arson2 ~ zna.KBDI,family = binomial) l.NDWI <- glm(zna.arson2 ~ zna.NDWI,family = binomial)

anova(l.KBDI,l.NDWI, test = "Chi")


Analysis of Deviance Table

Model 1: zna.arson2 ~ zna.KBDI
Model 2: zna.arson2 ~ zna.NDWI
 Resid. Df Resid. Dev  Df Deviance P(>|Chi|)
1       110    123.227
2       110    113.593   0    9.635
Warning message:
NaNs produced in: pchisq(q, df, lower.tail, log.p)


*Is this caused by the non-linearity of the data? *How can I obtain a p-value?

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