ELMR Exercise 5.4
## miltcoup oligarchy pollib parties
## Min. :0.000 Min. : 0.000 Min. :0.000 Min. : 0.00
## 1st Qu.:0.000 1st Qu.: 0.000 1st Qu.:1.000 1st Qu.:10.00
## Median :1.000 Median : 1.000 Median :2.000 Median :13.00
## Mean :1.404 Mean : 4.447 Mean :1.667 Mean :15.96
## 3rd Qu.:2.000 3rd Qu.: 9.000 3rd Qu.:2.000 3rd Qu.:19.00
## Max. :6.000 Max. :18.000 Max. :2.000 Max. :62.00
## NA's :5
## pctvote popn size numelec
## Min. : 0.00 Min. : 0.067 Min. : 0.5 Min. : 0.000
## 1st Qu.:18.90 1st Qu.: 1.450 1st Qu.: 33.0 1st Qu.: 4.000
## Median :28.95 Median : 5.600 Median : 274.0 Median : 6.000
## Mean :31.88 Mean : 10.953 Mean : 516.7 Mean : 6.191
## 3rd Qu.:43.04 3rd Qu.: 11.450 3rd Qu.: 813.0 3rd Qu.: 8.500
## Max. :77.40 Max. :113.800 Max. :2506.0 Max. :14.000
## NA's :6
## numregim
## Min. :1.000
## 1st Qu.:2.000
## Median :3.000
## Mean :2.511
## 3rd Qu.:3.000
## Max. :4.000
##

##
## Call:
## glm(formula = miltcoup ~ ., family = "poisson", data = na.omit(africa))
##
## Deviance Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -1.3443 -0.9542 -0.2587 0.3905 1.6953
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
## (Intercept) -0.5102693 0.9053301 -0.564 0.57301
## oligarchy 0.0730814 0.0345958 2.112 0.03465 *
## pollib -0.7129779 0.2725635 -2.616 0.00890 **
## parties 0.0307739 0.0111873 2.751 0.00595 **
## pctvote 0.0138722 0.0097526 1.422 0.15491
## popn 0.0093429 0.0065950 1.417 0.15658
## size -0.0001900 0.0002485 -0.765 0.44447
## numelec -0.0160783 0.0654842 -0.246 0.80605
## numregim 0.1917349 0.2292890 0.836 0.40303
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## (Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1)
##
## Null deviance: 65.945 on 35 degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 28.668 on 27 degrees of freedom
## AIC: 111.48
##
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 6
## Start: AIC=111.48
## miltcoup ~ oligarchy + pollib + parties + pctvote + popn + size +
## numelec + numregim
##
## Df Deviance AIC
## - numelec 1 28.728 109.54
## - size 1 29.281 110.09
## - numregim 1 29.363 110.17
## - popn 1 30.628 111.44
## - pctvote 1 30.668 111.48
## <none> 28.668 111.48
## - oligarchy 1 33.032 113.84
## - parties 1 35.501 116.31
## - pollib 1 35.581 116.39
##
## Step: AIC=109.54
## miltcoup ~ oligarchy + pollib + parties + pctvote + popn + size +
## numregim
##
## Df Deviance AIC
## - numregim 1 29.363 108.17
## - size 1 29.455 108.26
## - popn 1 30.639 109.45
## - pctvote 1 30.716 109.53
## <none> 28.728 109.54
## - parties 1 36.243 115.05
## - oligarchy 1 36.645 115.45
## - pollib 1 36.872 115.68
##
## Step: AIC=108.17
## miltcoup ~ oligarchy + pollib + parties + pctvote + popn + size
##
## Df Deviance AIC
## - size 1 30.044 106.85
## - popn 1 30.653 107.46
## <none> 29.363 108.17
## - pctvote 1 31.705 108.51
## - parties 1 36.778 113.59
## - pollib 1 37.830 114.64
## - oligarchy 1 40.300 117.11
##
## Step: AIC=106.85
## miltcoup ~ oligarchy + pollib + parties + pctvote + popn
##
## Df Deviance AIC
## - popn 1 31.081 105.89
## <none> 30.044 106.85
## - pctvote 1 32.247 107.06
## - parties 1 37.597 112.41
## - pollib 1 38.022 112.83
## - oligarchy 1 40.589 115.40
##
## Step: AIC=105.89
## miltcoup ~ oligarchy + pollib + parties + pctvote
##
## Df Deviance AIC
## - pctvote 1 32.856 105.67
## <none> 31.081 105.89
## - parties 1 37.599 110.41
## - pollib 1 39.762 112.57
## - oligarchy 1 48.950 121.76
##
## Step: AIC=105.66
## miltcoup ~ oligarchy + pollib + parties
##
## Df Deviance AIC
## <none> 32.856 105.67
## - parties 1 38.204 109.01
## - pollib 1 40.025 110.83
## - oligarchy 1 50.446 121.25
##
## Call:
## glm(formula = miltcoup ~ oligarchy + pollib + parties, family = "poisson",
## data = na.omit(africa))
##
## Deviance Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -1.3583 -1.0424 -0.2863 0.6278 1.7517
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
## (Intercept) 0.251377 0.372689 0.674 0.50000
## oligarchy 0.092622 0.021779 4.253 2.11e-05 ***
## pollib -0.574103 0.204383 -2.809 0.00497 **
## parties 0.022059 0.008955 2.463 0.01377 *
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## (Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1)
##
## Null deviance: 65.945 on 35 degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 32.856 on 32 degrees of freedom
## AIC: 105.66
##
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 5


## (Intercept) oligarchy pollib parties
## 1.2857949 1.0970473 0.5632097 1.0223037
For the last iteration of the stepAIC model, the coefficients could be interpreted as follows:
The odds of number of successful military coups increase by 9.7% with each additional year of military oligarchy, decrease by 56% with an increase of the degree of civil rights (1 or 2, -coeff is negative-) and, increases by 2.2% with each additional political party