On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Lynnette Dagenais wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if someone could help me answer a question that is bound > to come up in my Master's defense.
Lynnette, I expect you will get some opinions here, but you might get a better answer from your committee. Have you already asked the members of your committee? If not, it would seem best to start there. In the institutions in which I have studied and/or taught, the role of the committee member was to educate as well as to test the candidate. Surely, committee members will understand the details of your research better than we can. There are many issues regarding models selection, and knowing how best to address them does depend on the details of what you wish to accomplish that they will know and we do not. If you have asked, why are you asking here? Is there some difficulty or conflict that they have posed without providing the resolution? Are some members skeptical of model selection in general or of the particular procedure you use? Are there procedures that you have not used that some committee members would have favored? HTH, Chuck I'm using AIC to select models and my > question is how do I know that the models I developed a priori contain > the 'best' models in the system. How do I not know that some models > which I didn't include aren't actually the 'best' model?? > > Thanks so much > Lynnette > > ~ > Lynnette Dagenais > M.Sc. candidate > Department of Renewable Resources > University of Alberta, Edmonton > Canada > > > Looking for a X-Mas gift? Everybody needs a Flickr Pro Account. > > > > http://www.flickr.com/gift/ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
