Simplicity and model selection

DOI10.1007/S13194-016-0137-1MaRDI QIDQ1705324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guillaume Rochefort-Maranda

Publication date 15 March 2018

Published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13364/1/Simplicity_and_Model_Selection_published.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

model selectionsimplicitynonparametric models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) General nonlinear regression (62J02) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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