Publications

The Minimum Description Length Principle
Peter Grunwald
MIT Press, 2007. 570 pages. USD 45.

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction and reference guide to the minimum description length (MDL) Principle. The central concepts of this theory - both mathematical results and philosophical foundations - are explained in great detail. I thought you may be interested in the extensive discussion about how MDL and other compression-based methods relate to Occam's Razor - see chapter 1, section 1.8 and chapter 17 ; both of these chapters are available as sample chapters on the web; see

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~pdg/book/book.html

There you can find a lot of additional information as well.