parsimony



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If you drive into Scotland from England, one of the first motorway signs you see is "Slow Down - Save Fuel", which is presumably meant to appeal to the Scottish sense of parsimony. Source

Thirty years of local council parsimony have left our stock of municipal football pitches in a sorry condition, ill-drained, ill-maintained mud heaps. Source

It was John who put the finishing touches to Vancouver's Journal prior to publication several years after his death -- the delay caused by the parsimony of the Admiralty. Source

Why? Pharmaceutical companies from around the world have been scaling back clinical research in the United Kingdom, largely because of government parsimony. Source

The parsimony on the dividend can also be taken as a signal from Mr Bowman that Smiths should be considered a growth rather than income stock. Source


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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. -- Edmund Burke


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Doing more than is strictly necessary breaks the theory of parsimony; if it is not going to demonstrably deliver value then it is gold plating and is to be given a low priority. Source

The second type of parsimony is ontological parsimony. Source

Information theory provides a natural link between Bayesian approaches and parsimony, by expressing theories and data in the same language. Source