marize model params</p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/016214501753168398">Model Selection and the Principle of Minimum Description Length</a> (hansen &amp; yu 2001)</p>
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<li><p>mdl: choose the model that gives the shortest description of data</p>
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<li><p>description length = length of binary string used to code the data</p></li>
<li><p>using a prob distr. for coding/description purposes doesn‚Äôt require that i