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Parsimony Principle

The Parsimony Principle is a sentencing guideline that belongs to the class of legal principles governing judicial discretion, distinguished by its requirement that punishments be no more severe than necessary to achieve the legitimate aims of sentencing.

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125

Authors

90

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2017–2026

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Principle Of Parsimony

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Publications

66

GFP-like Proteins as Ubiquitous Metazoan Superfamily: Evolution of Functional Features and Structural Complexity

Dmitry A. Shagin, Ekaterina V. Barsova, Yurii G. Yanushevich et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2004 · 410 citations

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Parsimony in Systematics: Biological and Statistical Issues

Joe Felsenstein · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1983 · 351 citations

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The parsimony principle applied to multivariate calibration

Mary Beth Seasholtz, Bruce R. Kowalski · Analytica Chimica Acta · 1993 · 232 citations

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MPBoot: fast phylogenetic maximum parsimony tree inference and bootstrap approximation

Diep Thi Hoang, Lê Sỹ Vinh, Tomáš Flouri et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2018 · 197 citations · Full text

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The Principle of Parsimony

Elliott Sober · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 1981 · 173 citations

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Authors

125

  1. ES
    Elliott Sober

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    3 publications · 229 citations

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  2. PS
    Petre Stoica

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  3. MS
    Mike Steel

    University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    2 publications · 70 citations

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  4. DJ
    Daniel J. Curran

    Harvard University, United States

    2 publications · 51 citations

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  5. NS
    Naruya Saitou

    National Institute of Genetics, Japan

    2 publications · 92 citations

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Institutions

90

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    266 citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    250 citations

  3. University of Canterbury

    Christchurch, New Zealand

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    100 citations

  4. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    80 citations

  5. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    62 citations

  6. Syracuse University

    Syracuse, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    94 citations

  7. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    99 citations

  8. University of Alabama

    Tuscaloosa, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    67 citations

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Venues

  1. Systematic Biology

    4 publications · 180 citations

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  2. Systematic Zoology

    3 publications · 86 citations

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  3. Journal of Theoretical Biology

    2 publications · 57 citations

    2

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  4. Molecular Biology and Evolution

    MBE · 2 publications · 512 citations

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  5. Philosophy of Science

    2 publications · 53 citations

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