parsimony
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
The principle of preferring the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions.
By parsimony, the reviewers favoured the simpler model over one bristling with extra parameters.
Business noun
The principle of favoring the simplest explanation or model that adequately accounts for the evidence.
In the interest of parsimony, the analysts dropped three weak predictors that added little explanatory power to the model.
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