Lack of confidence in approximate Bayesian computation model choice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 15112-15117

  Roberta, Christian P ^a,b,c   Cornuetd, Jean Marie ^d   Marine, Jean Michel ^e   Pillaif, Natesh S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c CREST   (France)

^d CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Bayesian model choice; Consistent tests; Likelihood free methods; Sufficient statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION;

EID: 80053069153     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102900108     Document Type: Article

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