Model Choice Brian D. Ripley Professor of Applied Statistics University of Oxford ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk http://stats.ox.ac.uk/∼ripley Sub-titles • Towards general principles for model selec- tion. • ‘Give up your small ambitions’ • Check your assumptions – – of the models – of the model selection theories Model Choice in 1977 That’s both 25 years ago and when I started to learn about this. • The s