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cs.IT2014★ 4 cited
Bayesian Properties of Normalized Maximum Likelihood and its Fast Computation
Andrew Barron, Teemu Roos, Kazuho Watanabe
The normalized maximized likelihood (NML) provides the minimax regret solution in universal data compression, gambling, and prediction, and it plays an essential role in the minimu…
cs.IT2014★ 4 cited
Large Alphabet Compression and Predictive Distributions through Poissonization and Tilting
Xiao Yang, Andrew R. Barron
This paper introduces a convenient strategy for coding and predicting sequences of independent, identically distributed random variables generated from a large alphabet of size …
math.ST2014★ 4 cited
Information Theory of Penalized Likelihoods and its Statistical Implications
Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Andrew Barron
We extend the correspondence between two-stage coding procedures in data compression and penalized likelihood procedures in statistical estimation. Traditionally, this had required…