A critique of Jaynes' maximum entropy principle

DOI10.1016/0196-8858(81)90003-8zbMath0471.94006OpenAlexW2004443023MaRDI QIDQ1158131

Penha Maria Cardoso Dias, Abner Shimony

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0196-8858(81)90003-8

zbMATH Keywords

inductive probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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