Re: Design detection and minimum description length

From: Stein A. Stromme (stromme@mi.uib.no)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 14:32:23 EST

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    [Iain Strachan]

    | Suppose you send me 10 pairs of points (x(i), y(i)) for i=1 to 10.
    | You don't tell me anything about whether it's designed or not
    | designed.
    |
    | I claim that I can tell you if there is a correlation between the
    | variables (for "correlation" read "design") simply via the
    | methodology of using Minimum Description Length. If I find such a
    | correlation, it is useful to me because I can interpolate between the
    | specified x(i) points to make new predictions from my model. Here's
    | how I do it.

    You detect "correlation", which is hardly surprising, but what is the
    connection to "design"?

    Stein 

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