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<p>Complexity can be a useful notion for many things in statistical models. It can help answer the following questions:</p>
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<li><p>can I interpret this model?</p></li>
<li><p>how many samples should I collect?</p></li>
<li><p>is my model a good fit for this problem?</p></li>
<li><p>model class selectiondirectionsmore stable (e.g. LOOCV, deletion, weights)interpolating estimator w/ lowest var?</p></li>
<li><p>set an err threshold and then look at