Advances in Minimum Description Length - Table of Contents

April 2005
8 x 10, 454 pp., 73 illus.
$50.00/£37.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-07262-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-07262-5

Bradford Books

Neural Information Processing

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Advances in Minimum Description Length
Theory and Applications
Edited by Peter D. Grünwald, In Jae Myung and Mark A. Pitt

	Series Foreword	vii

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (56 KB)	ix

I	Introductory Chapters	1

1	Introducing the Minimum Description Length Principle Peter D. Grünwald Sample Chapter - Download PDF (304 KB)	3

2	Minimum Description Length Tutorial Peter D. Grünwald	23

3	MDL, Bayesian Inference, and the Geometry of the Space of Probability Distributions Vijay Balasubramanian	81

4	Hypothesis Testing for Poisson vs. Geometric Distributions Using Stochastic Complexity Aaron D. Lanterman	99

5	Applications of MDL to Selected Families of Models Andrew J. Hanson and Philip Chi-Wing Fu	125

6	Algorithmic Statistics and Kolmogorov's Structure Functions Paul Vitányi	151

II	Theoretical Advances	175

7	Exact Minimax Predictive Density Estimation and MDL Feng Liang and Andrew Barron	177

8	The Contribution of Parameters to Stochastic Complexity Dean P. Foster and Robert A. Stine	195

9	Extended Stochastic Complexity and Its Applications to Learning Kenji Yamanishi	215

10	Kolmogorov's Structure Function in MDL Theory and Lossy Data Compression Jorma Rissanen and Ioan Tabus	245

III	Practical Applications	263

11	Minimum Message Length and Generalized Bayesian Nets with Asymmetric Languages Joshua W. Comley and David L. Dowe	265

12	Simultaneous Clustering and Subset Selection via MDL Rebecka Jörnsten and Bin Yu	295

13	An MDL Framework for Data Clustering Petri Kontkanen, Petri Myllymäki, Wray Buntine, Jorma Rissanen and Henry Tirri	323

14	Minimum Description Length and Psychological Clustering Models Michael D. Lee and Daniel J. Navarro	355

15	A Minimum Description Length Principle for Perception Nick Chater	385

16	Minimum Description Length and Cognitive Modeling Yong Su, In Jae Myung and Mark A. Pitt	411

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (98 KB)	435

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