Editing Minimum message length (section)

==External links==
''Original Publication:''

*{{cite journal|last1=Wallace|last2=Boulton|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/CSWallacePublications/WallaceBoultonAnInformationMeasureForClassification_ComputerJournal1968_pp185-194.txt|title=An information measure for classification|journal=Computer Journal|volume=11|issue=2|date=August 1968|pages=185–194|doi=10.1093/comjnl/11.2.185|doi-access=free}}

Books:

* {{cite book |authorlink=Chris Wallace (computer scientist) |first=C.S. |last=Wallace |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-387-27656-4 |title=Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length |publisher=Springer-Verlag |series=Information Science and Statistics |isbn=978-0-387-23795-4 |date=May 2005 |doi=10.1007/0-387-27656-4 |ref=CITEREFWallace (posthumous)2005}}
* {{cite book|first=L.|last=Allison|title=Coding Ockham's Razor|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3319764320|date=2018|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-76433-7|s2cid=19136282}}, on implementing MML, and [https://www.cantab.net/users/mmlist/MML/A/ source-code].

Related Links:

* Links to all [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/CSWallacePublications/ Chris Wallace]'s known publications.
* A [http://www.allisons.org/ll/Images/People/Wallace/ searchable database of Chris Wallace's publications].
*{{cite journal|title=Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov Complexity|first1=C.S.|last1=Wallace|first2=D.L.|last2=Dowe|journal=Computer Journal|volume=42|issue=4|year=1999|pages=270–283|doi=10.1093/comjnl/42.4.270|citeseerx=10.1.1.17.321}}
*{{cite journal|url=http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/4.toc|title=Special Issue on Kolmogorov Complexity|journal=Computer Journal|volume=42|issue=4|year=1999|ref={{harvid|Special Issue on Kolmogorov Complexity|1999}}}}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
*{{cite conference|last1=Dowe|first1=D.L.|first2=C.S.|last2=Wallace|year=1997|title=Resolving the Neyman-Scott Problem by Minimum Message Length|journal=Computing Science and Statistics|volume=28|conference=28th Symposium on the interface, Sydney, Australia|pages=614–618|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#DoweWallace1997}}
*[http://www.allisons.org/ll/MML/20031120e/ History of MML, CSW's last talk].
*{{cite conference|title=Message Length as an Effective Ockham's Razor in Decision Tree Induction|first1=S.|last1=Needham|first2=D.|last2=Dowe|conference-url=http://www.ai.mit.edu/conferences/aistats2001|conference=Proc. 8th International Workshop on AI and Statistics|year=2001|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/2001/Needham+Dowe2001_Ockham.pdf|pages=253–260}} (Shows how [[Occam's razor]] works fine when interpreted as MML.)
*{{cite journal|first=L.|last=Allison|title=Models for machine learning and data mining in functional programming|journal=Journal of Functional Programming|volume=15|issue=1|pages=15–32|date=Jan 2005|doi=10.1017/S0956796804005301|doi-broken-date=17 April 2025 |s2cid=5218889|doi-access=free}} (MML, FP, and Haskell [http://www.allisons.org/ll/Publications/200309/READ-ME.shtml code]).
*{{cite book|first1=J.W.|last1=Comley|first2=D.L.|last2=Dowe|chapter-url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#ComleyDowe2005|chapter=Chapter 11: Minimum Message Length, MDL and Generalised Bayesian Networks with Asymmetric Languages|pages=265–294|editor1-first=P.|editor1-last=Grunwald|editor2-first=M. A.|editor2-last=Pitt|editor3-first=I. J.|editor3-last=Myung|url=http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=4C100C6F-2255-40FF-A2ED-02FC49FEBE7C&ttype=2&tid=10478|title=Advances in Minimum Description Length: Theory and Applications|publisher=M.I.T. Press|date=April 2005|isbn=978-0-262-07262-5}} 
*{{cite conference|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#ComleyDowe2003|last1=Comley|first1=Joshua W.|first2=D.L.|last2=Dowe|title=General Bayesian Networks and Asymmetric Languages|conference=Proc. 2nd Hawaii International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields|date=5–8 June 2003}}, [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/2003/Comley+Dowe03_HICS2003_GeneralBayesianNetworksAsymmetricLanguages.pdf .pdf]. Comley & Dowe ([http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#ComleyDowe2003 2003], [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#ComleyDowe2005 2005]) are the first two papers on MML Bayesian nets using both discrete and continuous valued parameters.

*{{cite book|last=Dowe|first=David L.|year=2010|chapter-url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/2010/Dowe2010_MML_HandbookPhilSci_Vol7_HandbookPhilStat_MML+hybridBayesianNetworkGraphicalModels+StatisticalConsistency+InvarianceAndUniqueness_pp901-982.pdf|chapter=MML, hybrid Bayesian network graphical models, statistical consistency, invariance and uniqueness|title=Handbook of Philosophy of Science (Volume 7: Handbook of Philosophy of Statistics)|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-444-51862-0|pages=901–982}}
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeMML/ Minimum Message Length (MML)], LA's MML introduction, [http://www.allisons.org/ll/MML/ (MML alt.)].
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/MML.html Minimum Message Length (MML), researchers and links].
*{{cite web|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mml/|title=Another MML research website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412041031/http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mml/|archive-date=12 April 2017}}
*[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Snob.html Snob page] for MML [[mixture model]]ling.
*[http://ai.ato.ms/MITECS/Entry/wallace MITECS]: [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/CSWallacePublications/ Chris Wallace] wrote an entry on MML for MITECS. (Requires account)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170706095733/https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/floreen/sem/mikko.ps mikko.ps]: Short introductory slides by Mikko Koivisto in Helsinki
*[[Akaike information criterion]] ([[Akaike information criterion|AIC]]) method of [[model selection]], and a [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/David.Dowe.publications.html#DoweGardnerOppy2007 comparison] with MML: {{cite journal|first1=D.L.|last1=Dowe|first2=S.|last2=Gardner|first3=G.|last3=Oppy|title=Bayes not Bust! Why Simplicity is no Problem for Bayesians|journal=Br. J. Philos. Sci.|volume=58|issue=4|date=Dec 2007|pages=709–754|doi=10.1093/bjps/axm033}}

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