Ecological Archives E096-210-A1
Brian S. Cade. 2015. Model averaging and muddled multimodel inferences. Ecology 96:2370–2382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1639.1
Appendix A. Example publications with flawed use of model-averaged regression coefficients.
The following publications (not an exhaustive list) used model-averaged regression coefficients as estimates of partial effects in regression models with predictor variables that likely had multicollinearity: Diniz-Filho et al. (2008), Rittenhouse et al. (2009), Diamond et al. (2011), Hansen et al. (2011), Matthews et al. (2012), Martinson and Raupp (2013), Morehouse and Boyce (2013), and Fedy et al.(2014). The following publications used model-averaged regression coefficients in conjunction with the sums of AIC weights to determine relative importance of individual predictor variables: Balkcom (2010), Benson et al. (2010), Conner et al. (2010), Goldstein et al. (2010), Gregory et al. (2010), Price et al. (2010), Beever et al. (2013), Lohr et al. (2013), Börger and Nudds (2014), Dauwalter et al. (2014), Erb et al. (2014), and Manicom et al. (2014). The following publications used model-averaged regression coefficients and estimated predicted responses from them for models that were not linear in the predictor variables: Holloran et al. (2005), Buskirk (2005), Greaves et al. (2006), and Aldridge et al. (2011). This actually may have been done in more of these publications but could only be determined definitively for these four.
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