Is this what you were trying to do? See intercept model and anova below. HTH
Steve McKinney > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] omnibus LR in multinomial model > > If one estimates a model using multinom, is it possible to perform the > omnibus LR test ( the analogue to omnibus F in linear models ) using > the output > from multinom ? The residual deviance is there but I was hoping I could > somehow pull out the deviance based on just using an intercept ? > Sample code is below from the CAR book but I wasn't sure how to do it > based on that example. Thanks for any insights. > > > library(car) > library(nnet) > > attach(Womenlf) > > participation <- ordered(partic, levels=c('not.work', 'parttime', > 'fulltime')) > print(participation) > > mod.multinom <- multinom(participation ~ hincome + children) > print(mod.multinom) > print(str(mod.multinom)) > mod.multinom0 <- multinom(participation ~ 1) # weights: 6 (2 variable) initial value 288.935032 final value 250.246281 converged > anova(mod.multinom, mod.multinom0) Model Resid. df Resid. Dev Test Df LR stat. Pr(Chi) 1 1 524 500.4926 NA NA NA 2 hincome + children 520 422.8819 1 vs 2 4 77.61064 5.551115e-16 > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.