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CAS Exam MAS-II Fall 2018, Question 25

Study guide: Exam MAS-II

Consider the following statements about Deviance Information Criterion (DIC).

  • I. Higher values indicate better models.
  • II. DIC includes a penalty for the effective number of parameters.
  • III. DIC is similar to AIC except that it accounts for information in the prior distribution(s).

Determine which of the above statements are true.

  • A) None are true
  • B) I and II only
  • C) I and III only
  • D) II and III only
  • E) The answer is not given by (A), (B), (C), or (D)

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