J. P. Kaye, A. Majumdar, C. Gries, A. Buyantuyev, N. B. Grimm, D. Hope, G. D. Jenerette, W. X. Zhu and L. Baker Ecologists increasingly use plot-scale data to inform ...

The problem of evaluating the goodness of the predictive distributions of hierarchical Bayesian and empirical Bayes models is investigated. A Bayesian predictive information criterion is proposed as ...