Comments on “A Critique of the Bayesian Information Criterion for Model Selection”

Firth and Kuha express their support of David Weakliem's critique of the Bayesia information criterion model of selection for statistical research and offer some supplementary remarks to his analysis. Despite the difficulty of accurate interpretation, significance tests have an important role t...

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Published inSociological methods & research Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 398 - 402
Main Authors FIRTH, DAVID, KUHA, JOUNI
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Beverly Hills, Calif SAGE Publications 01.02.1999
Sage Publications
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Bayesian method
Data analysis
Data collection
Methodological Problems
Sociological Research
Statistical Inference
Statistical methods
Statistics
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Summary:Firth and Kuha express their support of David Weakliem's critique of the Bayesia information criterion model of selection for statistical research and offer some supplementary remarks to his analysis. Despite the difficulty of accurate interpretation, significance tests have an important role to play in research, even with large amounts of data.
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ISSN:0049-1241
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DOI:10.1177/0049124199027003003