Approximations and consistency of Bayes factors as model dimension grows

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 241-258

  Berger, James O ^a   Ghosh, Jayanta K ^a,b   Mukhopadhyay, Nitai ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic consistency; Bayes factor; BIC; Model selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037336255     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00336-1     Document Type: Article

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