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.

We propose a new criterion for model selection in prediction problems. The covariance inflation criterion adjusts the training error by the average covariance of the ...

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 ...