“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” — John von Neumann
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“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” — John von Neumann
Related post: Occam’s razor and Bayes’ theorem
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What was he getting at when he said this? That more variables means the model has less value?
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Sometimes Gauss is credited for this quote
http://levenspiel.com/octave/elephant.htm
I couldn’t find the Chemical Innovation article where Levenspiel published his elephant curve model though.