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<span class='fu'>aw</span>(<span class='no'>object</span>, <span class='no'>...</span>)</pre> <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="arguments"><a class="anchor" href="#arguments"></a>Arguments</h2> <table class="ref-arguments"> <colgroup><col class="name" /><col class="desc" /></colgroup> <tr> <th>object</th> <td><p>An <a href='mmkin.html'>mmkin</a> column object, containing two or more <a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a> models that have been fitted to the same data, or an mkinfit object. In the latter case, further mkinfit objects fitted to the same data should be specified as dots arguments.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <th>...</th> <td><p>Not used in the method for <a href='mmkin.html'>mmkin</a> column objects, further <a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a> objects in the method for mkinfit objects.</p></td> </tr> </table> <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="references"><a class="anchor" href="#references"></a>References</h2> <p>Burnham KP and Anderson DR (2004) Multimodel Inference: Understanding AIC and BIC in Model Selection. <em>Sociological Methods & Research</em> <strong>33</strong>(2) 261-304</p> <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="examples"><a class="anchor" href="#examples"></a>Examples</h2> <pre class="examples"><div class='input'><span class='co'># \dontrun{</span> <span class='no'>f_sfo</span> <span class='kw'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></span>(<span class='st'>"SFO"</span>, <span class='no'>FOCUS_2006_D</span>, <span class='kw'>quiet</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>TRUE</span>) <span class='no'>f_dfop</span> <span class='kw'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></span>(<span class='st'>"DFOP"</span>, <span class='no'>FOCUS_2006_D</span>, <span class='kw'>quiet</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>TRUE</span>) <span class='no'>aw_sfo_dfop</span> <span class='kw'><-</span> <span class='fu'>aw</span>(<span class='no'>f_sfo</span>, <span class='no'>f_dfop</span>) <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/sum.html'>sum</a></span>(<span class='no'>aw_sfo_dfop</span>)</div><div class='output co'>#> [1] 1</div><div class='input'><span class='no'>aw_sfo_dfop</span> <span class='co'># SFO gets more weight as it has less parameters and a similar fit</span></div><div class='output co'>#> [1] 0.5970258 0.4029742</div><div class='input'><span class='no'>f</span> <span class='kw'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mmkin.html'>mmkin</a></span>(<span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html'>c</a></span>(<span class='st'>"SFO"</span>, <span class='st'>"FOMC"</span>, <span class='st'>"DFOP"</span>), <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/list.html'>list</a></span>(<span class='st'>"FOCUS D"</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='no'>FOCUS_2006_D</span>), <span class='kw'>cores</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>1</span>, <span class='kw'>quiet</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>TRUE</span>) <span class='fu'>aw</span>(<span class='no'>f</span>)</div><div class='output co'>#> [1] 0.4808722 0.1945539 0.3245740</div><div class='input'><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/sum.html'>sum</a></span>(<span class='fu'>aw</span>(<span class='no'>f</span>))</div><div class='output co'>#> [1] 1</div><div class='input'><span class='fu'>aw</span>(<span class='no'>f</span>[<span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html'>c</a></span>(<span class='st'>"SFO"</span>, <span class='st'>"DFOP"</span>)])</div><div class='output co'>#> [1] 0.5970258 0.4029742</div><div class='input'># } </div></pre> </div> <div class="col-md-3 hidden-xs hidden-sm" id="pkgdown-sidebar"> <nav id="toc" data-toggle="toc" class="sticky-top"> <h2 data-toc-skip>Contents</h2> </nav> </div> </div> <footer> <div class="copyright"> <p>Developed by Johannes Ranke.</p> </div> <div class="pkgdown"> <p>Site built with <a href="https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/">pkgdown</a> 1.5.1.</p> </div> </footer> </div> </body> </html>