Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length

The Minimum Message Length (MML) Principle is an information-theoretic approach to induction, hypothesis testing, model selection, and statistical inference. MML, which provides a formal specification for the implementation of Occam's Razor, asserts that the ‘best’ explanation of observed data...

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Autor principal: Wallace, C.S (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York 2005.
Colección:Information Science and Statistics.
Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32735406*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Inductive Inference
  • Information
  • Strict Minimum Message Length (SMML)
  • Approximations to SMML
  • MML: Quadratic Approximations to SMML
  • MML Details in Some Interesting Cases
  • Structural Models
  • The Feathers on the Arrow of Time
  • MML as a Descriptive Theory
  • Related Work.