The Deviance Information Criterion: 12 Years on

2014/04/08 by David Spiegelhalter, Nicola Best, Bradley P. Carlin +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Computer Science · Psychology · #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #Statistical Methods and Inference #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #Deviance (statistics) #Computer science #Psychology #Machine learning

paper · doi:10.1111/rssb.12062

openalex publication_date 2014/04/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Summary The essentials of our paper of 2002 are briefly summarized and compared with other criteria for model comparison. After some comments on the paper's reception and influence, we consider criticisms and proposals forimprovement made by us and others.

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• Deviance information criterion [wikipedia]

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