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In this paper, objective Bayesian methods for hypothesis testing and variable selection in linear models are considered. The focus is on BayesVarSel, an R package that computes posterior probabilities of hypotheses/models and provides a suite of tools to properly summarize the results. We introduce the usage of specific functions to compute several types of model averaging estimations and predictions weighted by posterior probabilities. BayesVarSel contains exact algorithms to perform fast computations in problems of small to moderate size and heuristic sampling methods to solve large problems. We illustrate the functionalities of the package with several data examples. An illustrated overview of BayesVarSel Testing and variable selection problems are taught in almost any introductory statistical course. In this first section we assume such background to present the essence of the Bayesian approach and the basic usage of BayesVarSel (Garcia-Donato and Forte, 2015) with hardly any mathematical formulas. Our motivating idea in this first section is mainly to present the appeal of the Bayesian answers to a very broad spectrum of applied researchers. This introductory section concludes with a discussion about connections with potentially related R packages. The remaining six sections are organized as follows. In second section, on page 158, the problem is presented and the notation needed is introduced jointly with the basics of the Bayesian methodology. Then, two sections follow with explanations of the details concerning the obtention of posterior probabilities in hypothesis testing and variable selection problems, respectively, in BayesVarSel. In a later section, on page 163, several tools to describe the posterior distribution are explained, while the section on page 166 is devoted to model averaging techniques. The paper concludes with a section with plans for the future of the BayesVarSel project. This paper is supplemented with an appendix, with formulas for the most delicate ingredient in the underlying problem in BayesVarSel namely the prior distributions for parameters within each model. The current version of BayesVarSel, here presented, is 1.8.0.

Bayesian Testing, Variable Selection and Model Averaging in Linear Models using R with BayesVarSel