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Algorithmic Information Content (AIC)

noun

a measure of randomness based on the length of a concise description of a set; effective complexity (EF) is the length of a concise description of a set's regularities (found by mutual information (MI);  AIC and EF assist in the differentiation of the terms complex, simple, complicated, chaos, and stochastic