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Occam's razor
Known as:
Occum's razor
, Okkum's razor
, Occam’s Razor
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Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor, and lex parsimoniae in Latin, which means law of parsimony) is a problem-solving principle attributed…
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Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Occam's razor is insufficient to infer the preferences of irrational agents
S. Armstrong
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S. Mindermann
Neural Information Processing Systems
2017
Corpus ID: 53103181
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) attempts to infer human rewards or preferences from observed behavior. Since human planning…
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Review
2008
Review
2008
Applications of stable isotope analyses to avian ecology
R. Inger
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S. Bearhop
2008
Corpus ID: 52106437
In the past 20 years the use of stable isotope analysis has become increasingly common in ecological studies. In fact, in some…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Performance and Behavior of Family Firms: Evidence from the French Stock Market
D. Sraer
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D. Thesmar
2006
Corpus ID: 10428952
This paper empirically documents the performance and behavior of family firms listed on the French stock exchange between 1994…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Occam's Razor versus Saint's Triad
Anthony A. Hilliard
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S. Weinberger
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L. Tierney
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D. Midthun
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S. Saint
2004
Corpus ID: 35110923
A 60-year-old woman with a history of seronegative rheumatoid arthritis presented to the emergency department with a 10-day…
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Review
2002
Review
2002
Assessing the Service-Profit Chain
W. Kamakura
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Vikas Mittal
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F. Rosa
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J. Mazzon
2002
Corpus ID: 56225451
The service-profit chain (SPC) is a framework for linking service operations, employee assessments, and customer assessments to a…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Expected EPS and EPS Growth as Determinants of Value By
James A. Ohlson
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Beate E. Juettner-Nauroth
2000
Corpus ID: 14818941
This paper develops a parsimonious model relating a firm's price per share to, (i), next year expected earnings per share (eps…
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Review
1997
Review
1997
Canadian boreal forest ecosystem structure and function in a changing climate: impact on fire regimes
M. Weber
,
M. Flannigan
1997
Corpus ID: 54028155
Boreal forest fire regime, which encompasses fire intensity, frequency, seasonality, size, type (crown versus surface), and…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Bayesian Learning for Neural Networks
Radford M. Neal
1995
Corpus ID: 60809283
Artificial "neural networks" are widely used as flexible models for classification and regression applications, but questions…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY: Introduction to Methods
J. Morrone
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J. Crisci
1995
Corpus ID: 55258511
The five basic historical biogeographic methods are: dispersalism, phyloge netic biogeography, panbiogeography, cladistic…
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Evolving Optimal Neural Networks Using Genetic Algorithms with Occam's Razor
Byoung-Tak Zhang
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H. Mühlenbein
Complex Systems
1993
Corpus ID: 15411602
Genetic algorithms have had two primary applications for neural networks: optimization of network architecture, and training…
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