Statistical Inference, Occam's Razor and Statistical Mechanics on The Space of Probability Distributions — mentioned by jwp729

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:39:16 GMT

I think the information theoretic approach to modeling concerns actually implies such "simpler is better" approaches as Occam's Razor. At least that's my take on [http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9601030], which derives a quantitative form of it.

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Statistical Inference, Occam's Razor and Statistical Mechanics on The Space of Probability Distributions — mentioned by jwp729