iteria</code> (default value = 2), then it is chosen as the more appropriate model. If not, the simpler model is chosen. The more appropriate models move on to the second round and are compared in the same way. The winner of the second round is chosen as the overall tournament winner and deemed the most appropriate model given the data.</p>
<p>The default method "WAIC", or the Widely Applicable Information Criterion (see Watanabe (2010)), is used to estimate the predictive performance of the models. This me