Section: Scientific Foundations

General presentation

We learned from the applications we treated that some assumptions which are currently used in asymptotic theory for model selection are often irrelevant in practice. For instance, it is not realistic to assume that the target belongs to the family of models in competition. Moreover, in many situations, it is useful to make the size of the model depend on the sample size which make the asymptotic analysis breakdown. An important aim of select is to propose model selection criteria which take these practical constraints into account.