parsimony

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parsimonious
The exclusion of the uninformative characters does not change the resulting most parsimonious trees.
Although these various practices are the subject matter of this book, the authors, however, are somewhat parsimonious in their presentation of empirical detail.
In this parsimonious model, the parameters have a ready interpretation.
It is therefore natural and parsimonious for agents to use these existing external identifiers when communicating with other agents.
If science aims to identify parsimonious models with large explanatory power, the inclusion of other factors into the theory is not warranted.
The most parsimonious explanation would be that no functional synapses were formed in the outer plexiform layer to allow for synaptic transmission in these mice.
It may be more parsimonious to suggest that recall observed before 2 years of age is explicit, but not necessarily episodic (autobiographical).
Epidemiological processes appear to be the most parsimonious explanation for the diversity, abundance and distribution of ectoparasite species infecting fish.
In conclusion, epidemiology is the most parsimonious explanation of the order that may be observed in ectoparasite assemblages.
The numbers above each node represent the percentage of the 24 equally parsimonious trees supporting each clade.
We suggest that studying a more parsimonious case definition - impairing chronic fatigue not due to a known cause - would represent a way forward.
This is something that rational choice theorists often neglect, in their desire to attain rigorous and, hence, parsimonious explanation.
We believe, however, that the framework that we propose does provide a parsimonious explanation for many apparently unrelated breast cancer behaviors.
It appears that the brain is not a parsimonious instrument, but rather one that assigns specific operations to particular subsystems.
This model provided a good fit to the data, although the equivalent two-factor common pathway model was more parsimonious.
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