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5 - Model Evaluation and Selection

from Part II - Model Evaluation and Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2018

Michael D. Ward
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
John S. Ahlquist
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

Explains why model evaluation and selection must occur prior to inference and then develops the out-of-sample prediction heuristic for model evaluation.Specific attention paid to cross-validation.

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Maximum Likelihood for Social Science
Strategies for Analysis
, pp. 97 - 118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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