Concerns regarding a Call for Pluralism of Information Theory and Hypothesis Testing

1. Stephens et al. (2005) argue for 'pluralism' in statistical analysis, combining null hypothesis testing and information-theoretic (I-T) methods. We show that I-T methods are more informative even in single variable problems and we provide an ecological example. 2. I-T methods allow infe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Applied Ecology. - Blackwell Science Ltd., 1964. - 44(2007), 2, Seite 456-460
1. Verfasser: Lukacs, Paul M. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Thompson, William L., Kendall, William L., Gould, William R., Burnham, Kenneth P., Anderson, David R.
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of Applied Ecology
Schlagworte:Akaike's Information Criterion Information Theory Model Selection Multimodel Inference null Hypothesis Testing Statistical Analysis Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Philosophy Mathematics mehr... Applied sciences History