Thank you very much for your answers. The problem is that the editor wants a formal test. So I guess that the Vuong test should be ok...
2011/3/24 Thomas Lumley <tlum...@uw.edu> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Brian S Cade <ca...@usgs.gov> wrote: > > As a follow-up to Greg's suggested graphical presentation, it seems like > > the Vuong test is sometimes used to compare fits of non nested models. > > > > There is a nice practical example of this with code in R, by Cosma > Shalizi and coworkers, at > http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html > > The application is the tendency of physicists and people who read > Wired to see power law distributions everywhere, and Vuong's test is > used to determine whether a power law fits better than a lognormal > (which it typically doesn't). > > -thomas > > -- > Thomas Lumley > Professor of Biostatistics > University of Auckland > [[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.
