Measurement, information and uncertainty

DOI10.1016/0378-4754(87)90129-7zbMath0623.92001OpenAlexW2075601884MaRDI QIDQ1091965

Bruce J. West

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4754(87)90129-7

zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintystochastic differential equationsinformationrenormalization groupscalingmeasurementGaussian distributionsepistemologymaximum entropy formalisminverse power-law distributionsobserved power-law distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Physics (00A79) Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

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