Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length

by C.S. Wallace

Book Overview

Since 1965, Prof. Wallace and others have been developing an approach tostatistical estimation, hypothesis testing, model selection and their applications in the Artificial Intelligence field of Machine Learning. The approach is based on Information Theory, using concepts from classical Shannon theory and more recent work on Algorithmic Complexity. The new approach has come to be called the Minimum Message Length principle, since it is based on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441920153
• ISBN13: 9781441920157
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"