Interaction Effects on Prediction of Children Weight at School Entry Using Model Averaging

  • Authors

    • Khuneswari Gopal Pillay
    • Sya Sya Syahira Muhammad Fitri Avtar
    • Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
    2018-11-30
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.30.22121
  • AICC, BIC, Interaction, Model Averaging, Model Selection

  • Abstract

    Model selection introduce uncertainty to the model building process, therefore model averaging was introduced as an alternative to overcome the problem of underestimate of standards error in model selection. This research also focused on using selection criteria between Corrected Akaike's Information Criteria (AICC) and Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) as weight for model averaging when involving interaction effects. Mean squared error of prediction (MSE(P)) was used in order to determine the best model for model averaging. Gateshead Millennium Study (GMS) data on children weight used to illustrate the comparison between AICC and BIC. The results showed that model selection criterion AICC performs better than BIC when there are small sample and large number of parameters included in the model. The presence of interaction variable in the model is not significant compared to the main factor variables due to the lower coefficient value of interaction variables. In conclusion, interaction variables give less information to the model as it coefficient value is lower than main factor.

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    Pillay, K. G., Avtar, S. S. S. M. F., & Abdullah, M. A. A. (2018). Interaction Effects on Prediction of Children Weight at School Entry Using Model Averaging. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.30), 205-208. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.30.22121

    Received date: 2018-11-28

    Accepted date: 2018-11-28

    Published date: 2018-11-30