Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Nov, 1978, Volume 46, Issue 6

Information Criteria for Discriminating Among Alternative Regression Models

https://doi.org/0012-9682(197811)46:6<1273:ICFDAA>2.0.CO;2-F
p. 1273-1291

Takamitsu Sawa

In recent years more and more emphasis has been placed on model discrimination procedures. In this paper we propose some new procedures for the selection of the most adequate regression model. Properties of those procedures are analyzed and compared. Their relationship with classical informal procedures is fully discussed. Our procedures are called the information criteria because we base our loss function on the Kullback-Leibler information measure of the distance between two probability density functions. The basic framework of our approach was originated by Akaike in his sequence of papers.


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