Pseudo-likelihood-based Bayesian information criterion for variable selection in survey data

Survey Methodology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 303-321

  Xu, Chen ^a   Chen, Jiahua ^a   Mantel, Harold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Statistical Research and Innovation Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

BIC; Model design based inference; Penalized likelihood; Sampling weights; Selection consistency; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899132023     PISSN: 07140045     EISSN: 14920921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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