ef="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/65d3/4977d9055f42e51dc1e7d9b4ca2f36c17537.pdf">The Minimum Description Length Principle in Coding and Modeling</a> (barron, rissanen, &amp; yu, 98)</p>
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<li><p>mdl: represent an entire class of prob. distrs. as models by a single ‚Äúuniversal‚Äù representative model such that it would be able to imitate the behavior of any model in the class. The best model class for a set of observed data, then, is the one whose representative premits the shortest coding of 