Topics in Model Building. Part IV. Some Problems in Model Discrimination.

Abstract

Certain authors have remarked on what they believed was the instability of the posterior probabilities of the models calculated using Box and Hill's discrimination technique. It is shown that this instability arose not for any inappropriateness of the technique itself but because it was used under the conditions which violated critical assumptions. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0772758

Entities

People

  • H. Kanemasu

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Discrimination
  • Instability
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Social Problems

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Statistical inference.