Model Selection and Multi-Model Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach

by Kenneth P. Burnham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387953647
• ISBN13: 9780387953649
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"