A comparison of scientific and engineering criteria for Bayesian model selection

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-62

  Chickering, David Maxwell ^a   Heckerman, David ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian selection criteria; Model averaging; Model selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041683330     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008936501289     Document Type: Article

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