On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ravi Varadhan <ravi.varadhan@jhu.edu>wrote:

> This is getting further away from typical R-devel issues, but let me add
> another perspective:  the `n' in BIC reflects the rate at which the
> information in the log-likelihood grows.
>

But in the derivation of  BIC, the log(n) term is kept and various terms of
order 1 are discarded.  What we're arguing about is one of the O(1) terms.
 If it makes an important difference then presumably we should also worry
about the other O(1) terms that got discarded.

   -thomas

-- 
Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland

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