Advances in Minimum Description Length: Theory and Applications

by In Jae Myung, Peter D. Grünwald, Mark A. Pitt

The process of inductive inference -- to infer general laws and principles from particular instances -- is the basis of statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and machine learning. The Minimum Descriptive Length (MDL) principle, a powerful method of inductive inference, holds that the best explanation, given a limited set of observed data, is the one that permits the greatest compression of the data -- that the more we are able to compress the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262072629
• ISBN13: 9780262072625
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher