Re: [R] stepAIC for overdispersed Poisson

2006-11-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Murray Jorgensen wrote: > I am wondering if stepAIC in the MASS library may be used for model > selection in an overdispersed Poisson situation. What I thought of doing > was to get an estimate of the overdispersion parameter phi from fitting > a model with all or most of the

[R] stepAIC for overdispersed Poisson

2006-11-13 Thread Murray Jorgensen
I am wondering if stepAIC in the MASS library may be used for model selection in an overdispersed Poisson situation. What I thought of doing was to get an estimate of the overdispersion parameter phi from fitting a model with all or most of the available predictors (we have a large number of ob