no code implementations • 1 Oct 2015 • James G. Dowty
The parametric complexity is the key quantity in the minimum description length (MDL) approach to statistical model selection.
no code implementations • 5 Aug 2014 • James G. Dowty
Logistic regression models with $n$ observations and $q$ linearly-independent covariates are shown to have Fisher information volumes which are bounded below by $\pi^q$ and above by ${n \choose q} \pi^q$.
no code implementations • 4 Feb 2013 • James G. Dowty
The minimum message length principle is an information theoretic criterion that links data compression with statistical inference.