Information criteria for astrophysical model selection
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Information criteria for astrophysical model selection
Model selection is the problem of distinguishing competing models, perhaps featuring different numbers of parameters. The statistics literature contains two distinct sets of tools, those based on information theory such as the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), and those on Bayesian inference such as the Bayesian evidence and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). The Deviance Information Crite...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1745-3925,1745-3933
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00306.x