Model Choice in Nonnested Families

Basilio de Bragança Pereira is a Professor of Biostatistics and of Applied Statistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.

“The authors are recognized experts teaching statistics in Brazil universities, and in the book … they present various methods of choosing between competing families of regression models, for instance, exponential versus lognormal models. … The monograph is interesting, innovative, and can serve in search for adequate models in applied statistical analysis.” (Stan Lipovetsky, Technometrics, Vol. 59 (4), November, 2017)

• Preliminaries.- Frequentist Methods.- Bayesian Methods.- Support and Simulation Methods.- Maximum Likelihood Estimation.- Index.