This book describes how model selection and statistical inference can be founded on the shortest code length for the observed data, called the stochastic comple

This volume has its origin in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Workshops on and Bayesian Methods in Applied Statistics", held at "Maximum-Entropy the University of

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT'99, held in Tokyo, Japan, in December 19