%0 Report %1 ghahramani_note_2005 %A Ghahramani, Iain Murray Zoubin %C University College London, UK %D 2005 %K Bayesian inference, model selection %N GCNU-TR 2005-003 %P 4 %T A note on the evidence and Bayesian Occam’s razor %U http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/ %X In his thesis, MacKay (1991) introduced figure 1, explaining how Bayes rule provides an automatic “Oc- cam’s razor” effect, penalizing unnecessarily complex mod- els. This figure has been adopted by several authors in the same schematic form. Here, after briefly reviewing neces- sary material, we compute a realization of the plot for a toy data modeling problem. We discuss interesting aspects of this plot and their implications for understanding model complexity.

@techreport{ghahramani_note_2005, abstract = {In his thesis, MacKay (1991) introduced figure 1, explaining how Bayes rule provides an automatic “Oc- cam’s razor” effect, penalizing unnecessarily complex mod- els. This figure has been adopted by several authors in the same schematic form. Here, after briefly reviewing neces- sary material, we compute a realization of the plot for a toy data modeling problem. We discuss interesting aspects of this plot and their implications for understanding model complexity.}, added-at = {2017-01-09T13:57:26.000+0100}, address = {University College London, UK}, author = {Ghahramani, Iain Murray Zoubin}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2aa042ca4ff54becaef5967dd49a955ac/yourwelcome}, institution = {Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit}, interhash = {aad0fd31d61018b35b4ab9ddc7736a08}, intrahash = {aa042ca4ff54becaef5967dd49a955ac}, keywords = {Bayesian inference, model selection}, number = {GCNU-TR 2005-003}, pages = 4, timestamp = {2017-01-09T14:01:11.000+0100}, title = {A note on the evidence and {Bayesian} {Occam}’s razor}, type = {Technical {Report}}, url = {http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/}, urldate = {2016-03-19}, year = 2005 }