The purpose of statistical model selection is to identify a parsimonious model, which is a model that is as simple as possible while maintaining good predictive ability over the outcome of interest.

The minimum description length (MDL) principle originated from data compression literature and has been considered for deriving statistical model selection procedures. Most of the existing methods ...

A statistical model -- now an easy-to-use software tool -- local police can use to identify a series of related crimes and nab a suspect has been unveiled. Crime linkage is the investigative process ...