However, we now emphasize that information-theoretic approaches allow formal inference to be based on more than one model (m- timodel inference). S- ond, concepts related to making formal inferences from more than one model (multimodel inference) have been emphasized throughout the book, but p- ticularly in Chapters 4, 5, and 6.

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