Research Article

A Focused Bayesian Information Criterion

Table 6

Survival regression example: selected (best) model according to the focus parameter (FoBMA) compared to its BIC rank and value, the probability that the focus is not null (100()), its BMA mean (), and standard deviation (.

FocusBest model (FoBMA)-BICRankMeanSD

174.8 1 100 0.031 0.009
168.9 34 7.8 0.000 0.000
168.9 24 1.7 0.003 0.045
170.8 14 100 0.78 0.13
170.8 15 84.7 0.74 0.43
170.7 16 2.8 0.006 0.05
168.8 39 5.4 0.000 0.000
171.0 13 78 2.5 1.7
170.4 18 5.6−0.018 0.1
169.6 28 20.9 0.097 0.23
170.0 27 1.4 0.000 0.026
169.5 29 36.6 0.1 0.16
170.2 23 1.6 0.002 0.027
171.3 11 73.8 0.26 0.2
172.0 7 100−2.8 8