A Note on the Applied Use of MDL Approximations

DOI10.1162/0899766041336378zbMATH Open1050.62112DBLPjournals/neco/Navarro04OpenAlexW2171936066WikidataQ51938594 ScholiaQ51938594MaRDI QIDQ4823699FDOQ4823699

Authors: Daniel J. Navarro 

Publication date: 28 October 2004

Published in: Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/33859

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15) Memory and learning in psychology (91E40)

Cites Work

• Modeling by shortest data description
• Statistical Inference, Occam's Razor, and Statistical Mechanics on the Space of Probability Distributions
• Fisher information and stochastic complexity
• Counting probability distributions: Differential geometry and model selection
• Strong optimality of the normalized ML models as universal codes and information in data

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