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Model Parsimony

Model Parsimony is a principle in model building that favors simpler models over more complex ones when they explain the data equally well, distinguished by its adherence to the criterion of minimizing unnecessary structural or parametric complexity while maintaining explanatory power.

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Principle Of Parsimony

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Publications

162

Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation

Wang-Cheng Kang, Julian McAuley · 2018 · 2.7K citations

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What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution?

David A. Whetten · Academy of Management Review · 1989 · 2.7K citations

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What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution?

David A. Whetten · Academy of Management Review · 1989 · 2.1K citations

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Enhancements to the ADMIXTURE algorithm for individual ancestry estimation

David H. Alexander, Kenneth Lange · BMC Bioinformatics · 2011 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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A Parsimony Approach to Biological Pathway Reconstruction/Inference for Genomes and Metagenomes

Yuzhen Ye, Thomas G. Doak · PLoS Computational Biology · 2009 · 713 citations · Full text

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Authors

371

  1. ES
    Elliott Sober

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    4 publications · 208 citations

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  2. KJ
    Kristopher J. Preacher

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    2 publications · 195 citations

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  3. JC
    John C. Avise

    University of Georgia, United States

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  4. RK
    Robert Kohn

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    2 publications · 76 citations

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  5. HW
    Herbert W. Marsh

    Western Sydney University, Australia

    2 publications · 903 citations

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Institutions

249

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    267 citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    1.2K citations

  3. University of Alabama

    Tuscaloosa, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    191 citations

  4. University of Canterbury

    Christchurch, New Zealand

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    819 citations

  5. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    3 h-index

    15 publications

    410 citations

  6. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    150 citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    177 citations

  8. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    100 citations

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Venues

  1. Cladistics

    9 publications · 649 citations

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  2. The Journal of Experimental Education

    3 publications · 756 citations

    3

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  3. Systematic Biology

    3 publications · 124 citations

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  4. Evolution

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  5. Psychological Bulletin

    2 publications · 487 citations

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