Re: [R] compare GLM coefficients

2010-11-23 Thread Ben Bolker
Michael Bedward gmail.com> writes: > > Hello Kayce, > > My (very basic) understanding is that you can't directly compare the > coefficients across models that have different response variables, nor > could you use AIC and similar metrics of model goodness of fit. > Instead, I think you have to

Re: [R] compare GLM coefficients

2010-11-22 Thread Michael Bedward
Hello Kayce, My (very basic) understanding is that you can't directly compare the coefficients across models that have different response variables, nor could you use AIC and similar metrics of model goodness of fit. Instead, I think you have to carefully define what you mean by "reveal similar po

[R] compare GLM coefficients

2010-11-22 Thread Kayce anderson
I have a data set of repeated abundance counts over time. I am investigating whether count data reduced to presence-absence (presence) data will reveal similar population trends. I am using a negative binomial distribution for the glm (package MASS) because the count data contains many zeros and