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....it for all possible situations. Therefore, we need to estimate the validity of a model: if we can construct multiple models, some of these will be simpler than others. We expect that simpler models are more likely to be correct. The rationale behind this rule also known as Ockham s razor [58] is that if there are multiple explanations for a particular phenomenon, it makes sense to choose the simplest, because it is more likely to capture the nature of the phenomenon. 15 Chapter 3 Data mining The learning processes described in the previous chapter can also be performed by ....
David C. Sills. William of Ockham. In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, pages 269 -- 270. Macmillan Company & The Free Press, New York, 1968.
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