Information theory offers a coherent, intuitive view of model selection. This perspective arises from thinking of a statistical model as a code, an algorithm for compressing data into a sequence of bits. The description length is the length of this code for the data plus the length of a...

Multiple transcription factors coordinately control transcriptional regulation of genes in eukaryotes. Although multiple computational methods consider the identification of individual transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs), very few focus on the interactions between these sites. We consider...

This article proposes a new data-driven method for selecting the smoothing parameter involved in the construction of kernel-based adaptive location estimators. The method consists of minimizing a cross-validatory criterion with respect to the bandwidth occurring in the kemd type estimators of...

While the traditional R value is useful to evaluate the quality of a fit, it does not work when it comes to evaluating the predictive power of estimated financial models in finite samples.