At 7:55 PM +0100 3/28/02, Saibal Mitra wrote: >I don't understand this point. > >Bill Jefferys wrote: > >> Ockham's razor is a consequence of probability theory, if you look at > > things from a Bayesian POV, as I do.
This is well known in Bayesian circles as the Bayesian Ockham's
Razor. A simple discussion is found in the paper that Jim Berger and
I wrote:
http://bayesrules.net/papers/ockham.pdf
and in Tom Loredo's paper
http://bayes.wustl.edu/gregory/articles.pdf
and many other places...
Bill
