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\title{Dealing with \code{quasi-}  models in R}
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\author{Ben Bolker}
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@ 
Computing ``quasi-AIC'' (QAIC), in R is a minor
pain, because  the R Core team (or at least the ones who wrote \code{glm},
\code{glmmPQL}, etc.) 
are purists and don't believe that quasi- models should report a likelihood.
As far as I know, there are three R packages that compute/handle
QAIC: 
\rpkg{bbmle}, \rpkg{AICcmodavg} and \rpkg{MuMIn}.


The basic problem is that quasi- model fits with \code{glm} return
an \code{NA} for the log-likelihood, while the dispersion parameter
($\hat c$, $\phi$, whatever you want to call it)
is only reported for quasi- models.
Various ways to get around this are:
\begin{itemize}
  \item{fit the model twice, once with a regular
      likelihood model (\code{family=binomial}, \code{poisson}, etc.)
      and once with the \code{quasi-} variant --- extract
      the log-likelihood from the former and the dispersion parameter
      from the latter}
    \item{only fit the regular model; extract
      the overdispersion parameter manually
      with
<<dfun>>=
dfun <- function(object) {
  with(object,sum((weights * residuals^2)[weights > 0])/df.residual)
}
@ 
}
\item{use the fact that quasi- fits still contain a deviance,
    even if they set the log-likelihood to \code{NA}.  The deviance
    is twice the negative log-likelihood (it's offset by some constant
    which I haven't figured out yet, but it should still work
    fine for model comparisons)}
\end{itemize}

The whole problem is worse for \code{MASS::glmmPQL}, where (1) the
authors have gone to greater efforts to make sure that the (quasi-)deviance
is no longer preserved anywhere in the fitted model, and (2) they
may have done it for good reason --- it is not clear whether the
number that would get left in the `deviance' slot at the end of
\code{glmmPQL}'s alternating \code{lme} and \code{glm} fits is
even meaningful to the extent that regular QAICs are.  (For 
discussion of a similar situation, see the \code{WARNING}
section of \code{?gamm} in the \code{mgcv} package.)

Example: use the values from one of the examples
in \code{?glm}:

<<dobdata>>=
## Dobson (1990) Page 93: Randomized Controlled Trial :
counts <- c(18,17,15,20,10,20,25,13,12)
outcome <- gl(3,1,9)
treatment <- gl(3,3)
@ 

Fit Poisson and quasi-Poisson models with all combinations
of predictors:

<<fitdob>>=
glmOT.D93 <- glm(counts ~ outcome + treatment, family=poisson)
glmO.D93  <- update(glmOT.D93, . ~ . - treatment)
glmT.D93  <- update(glmOT.D93, . ~ . - outcome)
glmX.D93  <- update(glmT.D93, . ~ . - treatment)
glmQOT.D93 <- update(glmOT.D93, family=quasipoisson)
glmQO.D93 <- update(glmO.D93, family=quasipoisson)
glmQT.D93 <- update(glmT.D93, family=quasipoisson)
glmQX.D93 <- update(glmX.D93, family=quasipoisson)
@ 


Extract log-likelihoods:
<<dobll>>=
(sum(dpois(counts,
          lambda=exp(predict(glmOT.D93)),log=TRUE))) ## by hand
(logLik(glmOT.D93))  ## from Poisson fit
@ 

The deviance (\code{deviance(glmOT.D93)}=\Sexpr{round(deviance(glmOT.D93),3)}
is not the same as $-2L$ (\code{-2*logLik(glmOT.D93)}=\Sexpr{round(-2*c(logLik(glmOT.D93)),3)}),
but the calculated differences in deviance are consistent,
and are also extractable from the quasi- fit even though
the log-likelihood is \code{NA}:
<<dobll2>>=
(-2*(logLik(glmT.D93)-logLik(glmOT.D93)))  ## Poisson fit
(deviance(glmT.D93)-deviance(glmOT.D93))   ## Poisson fit
(deviance(glmQT.D93)-deviance(glmQOT.D93)) ## quasi-fit
@ 


Compare hand-computed dispersion (in two ways)
with the dispersion computed by \code{summary.glm()}
on a quasi- fit:

<<dobdisp>>=
(dfun(glmOT.D93))
(sum(residuals(glmOT.D93,"pearson")^2)/glmOT.D93$df.residual)
(summary(glmOT.D93)$dispersion)
(summary(glmQOT.D93)$dispersion)
@ 


\section*{Examples}

\subsection*{\code{bbmle}}

<<bbmle>>=
library(bbmle)
(qAIC(glmOT.D93,dispersion=dfun(glmOT.D93)))
(qAICc(glmOT.D93,dispersion=dfun(glmOT.D93),nobs=length(counts)))
ICtab(glmOT.D93,glmT.D93,glmO.D93,glmX.D93,
      dispersion=dfun(glmOT.D93),type="qAIC")
ICtab(glmOT.D93,glmT.D93,glmO.D93,glmX.D93,
      dispersion=dfun(glmOT.D93),
      nobs=length(counts),type="qAICc")
detach("package:bbmle")
@ 

\subsection*{\code{AICcmodavg}}

<<AICcmodavg>>=
library(AICcmodavg)
aictab(list(glmOT.D93,glmT.D93,glmO.D93,glmX.D93), 
       modnames=c("OT","T","O","X"),
       c.hat=dfun(glmOT.D93))
detach("package:AICcmodavg")
@ 

\subsection*{\code{MuMIn}}

<<MuMin>>=
library(MuMIn); packageVersion("MuMIn")
## from ?QAIC
x.quasipoisson <- function(...) {
    res <- quasipoisson(...)
    res$aic <- poisson(...)$aic
    res
}
glmQOT2.D93 <- update(glmOT.D93,family="x.quasipoisson",
                      na.action=na.fail)
(gg <-  dredge(glmQOT2.D93,rank="QAIC", chat=dfun(glmOT.D93)))
(ggc <- dredge(glmQOT2.D93,rank="QAICc",chat=dfun(glmOT.D93)))
detach("package:MuMIn")
@ 

Notes: ICtab only gives delta-IC, limited decimal places
(on purpose, but how do you change these defaults if you
want to?).  Need to add 1 to parameters
to account for scale parameter.  When doing corrected-IC you need
to get the absolute number of parameters right, not just the relative
number \ldots Not sure which classes of models each of these
will handle (lm, glm, (n)lme, lme4, mle2 \ldots).  Remember
need to use overdispersion parameter from most complex model.
glmmPQL: needs to be hacked somewhat more severely (does not
contain deviance element, logLik has been NA'd out).

\begin{tabular}{l|ccccccc}
  package & \code{lm} & \code{glm} & \code{(n)lme} & \code{multinom} & \code{polr} & \code{lme4} & \code{mle2} \\
  \hline
  \code{AICcmodavg} & y & y & y & y & y & ? & ? \\
  \code{MuMIn}      & ? & ? & ? & ? & ? & ? & ? \\
  \code{mle2 }      & ? & ? & ? & ? & ? & ? & ?
\end{tabular}
  
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