Dear Patrick Try the package gamlss which allow to fit the negative binomial distrbution. For example with your data I am getting #--------------------------------------------------- ga1<-gamlss(nbcas~.,data=zonesdb4,family=NBI) GAMLSS-RS iteration 1: Global Deviance = 817.9027 GAMLSS-RS iteration 2: Global Deviance = 817.9025 ga1
Family: c("NBI", "Negative Binomial type I") Fitting method: RS() Call: gamlss(formula = nbcas ~ ., family = NBI, data = zonesdb4) Mu Coefficients: (Intercept) pop Area V_100kHab1 gares1 3.204e+00 1.114e-05 1.354e-05 9.144e-01 7.946e-01 ports1 axe_routier1 axe_routier2 lacs1 -1.730e+00 1.989e-01 NA 3.042e+00 Sigma Coefficients: (Intercept) 2.313 Degrees of Freedom for the fit: 9 Residual Deg. of Freedom 83 Global Deviance: 817.902 AIC: 835.902 SBC: 858.599 #-------------------------------------------------------------- Note that the AIC: 835.902 is similar to your fitted model using glm.nb which is AIC: 836.2. The coefficients are not identical but this is not suprissing when you are using x-variables with extreme values as pop and Area. The profile function for sigma can be found using prof.dev(ga1,"sigma", min=7, max=16, step=0.1, type="l") Your discrepancy with STATA come from the fact that in STATA you are fitting the model with sigma fixed to 1. You can see that by fitting the same model in GAMLSS. > ga2<-gamlss(nbcas~.,data=zonesdb4,family=NBI, sigma.fix=T, sigma.start=1) GAMLSS-RS iteration 1: Global Deviance = 1194.299 GAMLSS-RS iteration 2: Global Deviance = 1194.298 This is similar to the log likelihod you are getting in STATA. i.e. -2*-597.14778= 1194.296. You can also use the stepGAIC() function to simplify your model. For example ga2<-stepGAIC(ga1) will result to a model with only pop and lacs in the mdel. Note also the the Negative binomial type II fits better to you data. > ga3<-gamlss(nbcas~.,data=zonesdb4,family=NBII) GAMLSS-RS iteration 1: Global Deviance = 804.5682 ... GAMLSS-RS iteration 10: Global Deviance = 804.4995 Thanks Mikis ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.