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Why there is no p-value from likelihood ratio test using anova in GAM model fitting?

The simpler model has the lower deviance (marginally), so there is nothing to 
test here. This can happen with maximum penalized likelihood estimators, even 
though the models are nested (especially if the smoothing parameters are 
selected automatically). Are you using gam:gam or mgcv:gam (and which version 
numbers)? 

best,
Simon
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 12:38, willow1980 wrote: