An introduction to the Bayes information criterion: theoretical foundations and interpretation

zbMath1409.62025MaRDI QIDQ1733295

Tristan Mary-Huard, Emilie Lebarbier

Publication date: 21 March 2019

Published in: Journal de la Société Française de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace approximationmodel selection criterionBayesian criteriondimension-consistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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