摘要
Professor Bayarri and coauthors’ paper (hereafter,PBIC) offers a stimulating and welcomed addition tothe already extensive and yet still rapid expanding literature on model selection and related topics. In a 2013review on model selection in linear mixed models byMüller, Scealy, and Welsh (2013), the authors classified main approaches in mixed model selection intothree categories, the information criteria, the shrinkagemethods and the fence methods. The current paper isnot specifically regarding mixed model selection problems;however, as one shall see, there is a connection invarious ways.