Advances in Minimum Description Length Theory and Applications

Name: Advances in Minimum Description Length Theory and Applications
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ISBN: 9780262072625

ISBN-10: 0262072629

ISBN-13: 9780262072625

Edition: 2005

Authors: Peter D. Grï¿½nwald, In Jae Myung, Mark A. Pitt

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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 data, the more we learn about the regularities underlying the data. Advances in Minimum Description Lengthis a sourcebook that will introduce the scientific community to the foundations of MDL, recent theoretical advances, and practical…

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List price: $11.75
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/25/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Size: 8.19" wide x 10.20" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 2.464



Series Foreword


Preface



Introductory Chapters



Introducing the Minimum Description Length Principle




Minimum Description Length Tutorial




MDL, Bayesian Inference, and the Geometry of the Space of Probability Distributions




Hypothesis Testing for Poisson vs. Geometric Distributions Using Stochastic Complexity




Applications of MDL to Selected Families of Models




Algorithmic Statistics and Kolmogorov's Structure Functions




Theoretical Advances



Exact Minimax Predictive Density Estimation and MDL




The Contribution of Parameters to Stochastic Complexity




Extended Stochastic Complexity and Its Applications to Learning




Kolmogorov's Structure Function in MDL Theory and Lossy Data Compression




Practical Applications



Minimum Message Length and Generalized Bayesian Nets with Asymmetric Languages




Simultaneous Clustering and Subset Selection via MDL




An MDL Framework for Data Clustering




Minimum Description Length and Psychological Clustering Models




A Minimum Description Length Principle for Perception




Minimum Description Length and Cognitive Modeling



Index