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Subject: Re: Zappa Report

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 10:47:15 12/30/05

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On December 30, 2005 at 13:02:43, Ingo Althofer wrote:

 in case of linear evaluation functions with lots
>of terms there is always a small subset of the terms
>such that this set with the right parameters is
>almost as good as the full evaluation function.
>

The whole multivariate approach to the social sciences, of which multiple linear
regression is an example, is based on the same assumption.

Parsimony rules.

Roger



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