Belot, Gordon (2016) Sober as a Judge. [Preprint]
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Abstract
In Ockham's Razors: A User's Guide, argues that parsimony considerations are epistemically relevant on the grounds that certain methods of model selection, such as the Akaike Information Criterion, exhibit good asymptotic behaviour and take the number of adjustable parameters in a model into account. I raise some worries about this form of argument.
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Metascience | ||||||
Keywords: | Parsimony; Simplicity; Ockham's Razor; Model Selection; Akaike Information Criterion | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Depositing User: | Gordon Belot | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 29 May 2016 21:44 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 29 May 2016 21:44 | ||||||
Item ID: | 12117 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Date: | 29 May 2016 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12117 |
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