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A Stochastic Complexity Perspective of Induction in Economics and Inference in Dynamics

Velupillai, K. Vela
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/984
 https://doi.org/10.13025/22960
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2007
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Economics
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Velupillai, K. V., (2007) "A Stochastic Complexity Perspective of Induction in Economics and Inference in Dynamics" (Working Paper No. 0127) Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Rissanen's fertile and pioneering minimum description length principle (MDL) has been viewed from the point of view of statistical estimation theory, information theory, as stochastic complexity theory - i.e., a computable approximation of Kolomogorov Complexity - or Solomonoff's recursion theoretic induction principle or as analogous to Kolmogorov's sufficient statistics. All these - and many more - interpretations are valid, interesting and fertile. In this paper I view it from two points of view: those of an algorithmic economist and a dynamical system theorist. From these points of view I suggest, first, a recasting of Jevon's sceptical vision of induction in the light of MDL; and a complexity interpretation of an undecidable question in dynamics.
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