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Occam's razor has a practical interpretation in Bayesian statistics, in that a more complex hypothesis will tend to have exponentially lower prior probability,
by AlexCoventry 8y ago
Occam's razor has a practical interpretation in Bayesian statistics, in that a more complex hypothesis will tend to have exponentially lower prior probability, because in comes from a more heavily parametrized component of the hypothesis space.
That doesn't mean much without a concrete probability model, though, and there probably isn't one in this case.