alofi {SMPracticals}

Daily Rainfall at Alofi

Description

Three-state data derived from daily rainfall over three years at Alofi in the Niue Island group in the Pacific Ocean. The states are 1 (no rain), 2 (up to 5mm rain), 3 (over 5mm).

Usage

data(alofi)

Source

Avery, P. J. and Henderson, D. A. (1999) Fitting Markov chain models to discrete state series such as DNA sequences. Applied Statistics, 48, 53–61.

References

Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press. Page 294.

Examples

data(alofi)
fit <- MClik(alofi)
fit$df
fit$AIC
plot(fit$df,fit$AIC)  # best model has minimal AIC?