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What is: Minimum Description Length?

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Minimum Description Length provides a criterion for the selection of models, regardless of their complexity, without the restrictive assumption that the data form a sample from a 'true' distribution.

Extracted from scholarpedia

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Paper: J. Rissanen (1978) Modeling by the shortest data description. Automatica 14, 465-471

Book: P. D. Grünwald (2007) The Minimum Description Length Principle, MIT Press, June 2007, 570 pages