Re: [R-sig-eco] vegan rda

2011-09-28 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 00:49 +0200, Sibylle Stöckli wrote: Dear Jari, Thanks a lot for your very helpful comments. I still believe that my results are wrong using the 'standard' RDA code. Using the following code, I receive 'points' for the Y matrix (height) and arrows for the X matrix

Re: [R-sig-eco] gam variable selection

2011-09-28 Thread Rebecca Ross
Hi Marco, Having recently been working with gams myself I would suggest a procedure whereby you build your model in a forward stepwise approach first, having run individual gams for each of your variables and selecting the significant variable with the best AIC as your first variable, and

Re: [R-sig-eco] gam variable selection

2011-09-28 Thread Marco Helbich
Hello Bex, thanks for the detailed answer. You mentioned a function called dredge, perhaps you still know the corresponding package? Again, thanks Gavin and Bex for you advices and patience! Marco ___ R-sig-ecology mailing list

Re: [R-sig-eco] gam variable selection

2011-09-28 Thread Dunbar, Michael J.
Hi Bex Did you mean the dredge function from the MuMIn package? I'm not really sure what you mean by it does not take into account correlates or significance. The point about dredge is that it is part of a family of functions for multi-model inference which specifically avoid concepts of

Re: [R-sig-eco] gam variable selection

2011-09-28 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 10:44 +0100, Rebecca Ross wrote: Hi Marco, Having recently been working with gams myself I would suggest a procedure whereby you build your model in a forward stepwise approach first, having run individual gams for each of your variables and selecting the significant