Maximum Entropy in Action: A Collection of Expository Essays - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019853941X ISBN 13: 9780198539414

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

The maximum entropy method and the related Bayesian probability theory have recently become better known to research workers, but the power of these methods to resolve the true structures underlying many types of data is still not widely recognized. This volume provides an account of such methods. It is designed to introduce the reader to the principles of probability theory, viewed as the logic of inference, and to explain the role that entropy plays in the assignment of probabilities. The chapters concerned with applications show how the resulting algorithms can be implemented and how they work out in practice. In addition, the text examines the relation between statistical and dynamical theories in physics, and explores the confusion which surrounds the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019853941X
• ISBN 13: 9780198539414
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 247
• Herausgeber: Buck Brian, Macaulay Vincent A.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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