Miscellanea: Effective degrees of freedom: A flawed metaphor

Biometrika

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 479-485

  Janson, Lucas ^a   Fithian, William ^a   Hastie, Trevor J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Model complexity; Number of parameters; Optimism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941551093     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asv019     Document Type: Article

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