Statisticians and applied scientists often must select a model to fit empirical data. This book introduces researchers and graduate students in many areas to an information criterion approach, first introduced by Hirotugu Akaike in 1973. The book will be of general interest, but the emphasis is on applications to the biological sciences.

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Klappentext

A unique and comprehensive text on the philosophy of model-based data analysis and strategy for the analysis of empirical data. The book introduces information theoretic approaches and focuses critical attention on a priori modeling and the selection of a good approximating model that best represents the inference supported by the data. It contains several new approaches to estimating model selection uncertainty and incorporating selection uncertainty into estimates of precision. An array of examples is given to illustrate various technical issues. The text has been written for biologists and statisticians using models for making inferences from empirical data.

Inhalt
Information and Likelihood Theory: A Basis for Model Selection and Inference.- Basic Use of the Information-Theoretic Approach.- Formal Inference From More Than One Model: Multimodel Inference (MMI).- Monte Carlo Insights and Extended Examples.- Advanced Issues and Deeper Insights.- Statistical Theory and Numerical Results.- Summary.