The maximum entropy principle: A tool to define new entropies

DOI10.1016/0034-4877(88)90025-0zbMath0671.94004OpenAlexW2012183338MaRDI QIDQ1119542

W. Hughes, Bruno Forte

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-4877(88)90025-0

zbMATH Keywords

maximum entropy principleBoltzmann-Shannon entropyentropy for a real valued random variablegeneralized entropy functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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