concordance {spatialEco}

Concordance test for binomial models

Description

Performs a concordance/disconcordance (C-statistic) test on binomial models.

Usage

concordance(y, p)

Arguments

y

vector of binomial response variable used in model

p

estimated probabilities from fit binomial model

Details

Test of binomial regression for the hypothesis that probabilities of all positives [1], are greater than the probabilities of the nulls [0]. The concordance would be 100 inverse of concordance, representing the null. The C-statistic has been show to be comparable to the area under an ROC

Results are: concordance - percent of positives that are greater than probabilities of nulls. discordance - concordance inverse of concordance representing the null class, tied - number of tied probabilities and pairs - number of pairs compared

Value

list object with: concordance, discordance, tied and pairs

Author(s)

Jeffrey S. Evans <[e-mail]>

References

Austin, P.C. & E.W. Steyerberg (2012) Interpreting the concordance statistic of a logistic regression model: relation to the variance and odds ratio of a continuous explanatory variable. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 12:82

Harrell, F.E. (2001) Regression modelling strategies. Springer, New York, NY.

Royston, P. & D.G. Altman (2010) Visualizing and assessing discrimination in the logistic regression model. Statistics in Medicine 29(24):2508-2520

Examples

data(mtcars)
dat <- subset(mtcars, select=c(mpg, am, vs))
glm.reg <- glm(vs ~ mpg, data = dat, family = binomial)
concordance(dat$vs, predict(glm.reg, type = "response"))