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1Minimum description length — The minimum description length (MDL) principle is a formalization of Occam s Razor in which the best hypothesis for a given set of data is the one that leads to the best compression of the data. MDL was introduced by Jorma Rissanen in 1978. It is …
2Minimum Description Length — oder MDL ist eine informationstheoretische Methode, die 1978 von Jorma Rissanen zur Beschreibung von Regelmäßigkeiten in gemessenen Daten eingeführt wurde. Je stärker die Daten komprimiert werden können, desto größer ist der Anteil der Ordnung im …
3Length scale — In physics, length scale is a particular length or distance determined with the precision of one order (or a few orders) of magnitude. The concept of length scale is particularly important because physical phenomena of different length scales… …
4Minimum message length — (MML) is a formal information theory restatement of Occam s Razor: even when models are not equal in goodness of fit accuracy to the observed data, the one generating the shortest overall message is more likely to be correct (where the message… …
5Longueur de description minimale — La longueur de description minimale ou LDM (MDL pour Minimum Description Length en anglais) est un concept inventé par Jorma Rissanen en 1978 et utilisé en théorie de l information et en compression de données. Sommaire 1 Principe 2 Voir aussi… …
6Orders of magnitude (length) — Contents 1 Detailed list 1.1 Subatomic 1.2 Atomic to cellular 1.3 Human scale 1.4 …
7Day length — as a function of latitude and the day of the year Day length, or length of day, or length of daytime, refers to the time each day from the moment the upper limb of the sun s disk appears above the horizon during sunrise to the moment when the… …
8Rod (length) — unit of length name= rod m= 5.0292 accuracy=5The rod is a unit of length equal to 5.5 yards, 11 cubits, 5.0292 meters, 16.5 feet, or Fraction|1|320 of a statute mile. A rod is the same length as a perch and a pole. The lengths of the perch (one… …
9arm's length — n: the condition of the parties to a business deal in which each has independent interests and one does not dominate the other often used in the phrase at arm s length a contract made at arm s length arm s–length adj Merriam Webster’s Dictionary… …
10Debye length — In plasma physics, the Debye length (also called Debye radius), named after the Dutch physicist and physical chemist Peter Debye, is the scale over which mobile charge carriers (e.g. electrons) screen out electric fields in plasmas and other… …
