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COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-SIMULATION AND COMPUTATION
卷 37, 期 3, 页码 507-520出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/03610910701812428
关键词
approximate Bayesian posterior probabilities; Bayesian information criterion (BIC); image analysis; variable selection
The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is widely used for variable selection. We focus on the regression setting for which variations of the BIC have been proposed. A version that includes the Fisher Information matrix of the predictor variables performed best in one published study. In this article, we extend the evaluation, introduce a performance measure involving how closely posterior probabilities are approximated, and conclude that the version that includes the Fisher Information often favors regression models having more predictors, depending on the scale and correlation structure of the predictor matrix. In the image analysis application that we describe, we therefore prefer the standard BIC approximation because of its relative simplicity and competitive performance at approximating the true posterior probabilities.
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