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MATHEMATICAL ENTROPY AND A CRITICISM OF A USAGE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF MAXIMUM ENTROPY

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812839527_0050Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)
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    Abstract:

    The ‘principle of maximum entropy’ has been advocated for choosing a probability distribution to represent individual unknowns such as systematic deviations. Supporting claims like ‘the maximum-entropy distribution is minimally committal’ are indefensible in this context. The idea that entropy measures information only has meaning with sequences of categorical random variables.