We are honoured to have our work read and discussed at such a thorough level by several experts. Words of appreciation and encouragement are gratefully received, while the many supplementary comments, thoughtful reminders, new perspectives and additional themes raised are warmly welcomed and deeply appreciated. Our thanks go also to JASA Editor Francisco Samaniego and his editorial helpers for organising this discussion. Space does not allow us answering all of the many worthwhile points raised by our discussants, but in the following we make an attempt to respond to what we perceive of as being the major issues. Our responses are organised by themes rather than by discussants. We shall refer to our two articles as `the FMA paper' (Hjort and Claeskens) and `the FIC paper' (Claeskens and Hjort).

翻译：我们深感荣幸，多位专家以如此深入的视角研读并讨论了我们的工作。我们由衷感谢所收到的赞赏与鼓励之辞，同时热烈欢迎并深深感激讨论中提出的诸多补充评论、深思熟虑的提醒、新颖的视角以及额外的议题。我们也感谢《JASA》编辑Francisco Samaniego及其编辑团队组织此次讨论。限于篇幅，我们无法回应所有讨论者提出的众多宝贵观点，但下文将尝试就我们认为的主要议题作出回应。我们的回复按主题而非按讨论者组织。我们将我们的两篇文章分别称为“FMA论文”（Hjort与Claeskens）和“FIC论文”（Claeskens与Hjort）。