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Mulder, J.; Raftery, A. E. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
The Schwarz or Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is one of the most widely used tools for model comparison in social science research. The BIC, however, is not suitable for evaluating models with order constraints on the parameters of interest. This article explores two extensions of the BIC for evaluating order-constrained models, one where a…
Descriptors: Models, Social Science Research, Programming Languages, Bayesian Statistics