This article addresses issues of model choice in Bayesian contexts, and focusses on the use of the so-called posterior predictive p-values (ppp values). These involve a general discrepancy or conflict measure and depend ...

This Statistical Research Report contains the complete written discussion generated by the two papers “Frequentist Model Average Estimators”, by Hjort and Claeskens, and “The Focussed Information Criterion”, by Claeskens ...

A family of nonparametric prior distributions which extends the Dirichlet process is introduced and studied. Such family is first constructed by normalising suitable compound Poisson processes. An alternative derivation ...

When estimating parametric copula models by the semiparametric pseudo maximum likelihood procedure (MPLE), many practitioners have used the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) for model selection in spite of the fact that ...

Generalising the standard frailty models of survival analysis, we propose to model frailty as a weighted Lévy process. Hence the frailty of an individual is not a given quantity, but develops over time. Formulae for the ...