A comparison of three Occam's razors for Markovian causal models

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 423-448

  Zhang, Jiji ^a  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84877770879     PISSN: 00070882     EISSN: 14643537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axs005     Document Type: Article

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