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Doctoral dissertation: mathematical techniques for computing NML efficiently

30 Nov 2009 - In the doctoral dissertation, Petri Kontkanen presents mathematical techniques for computing Normalized Maximum Likelihood (NML) distribution efficiently for some model families involving discrete data. Kontkanen also shows how these techniques can be used to apply MDL in two practical applications: histogram density estimation and clustering of multi-dimensional data.