Objective Bayesianism and the maximum entropy principle

DOI10.3390/e15093528zbMath1335.62008OpenAlexW1976934354MaRDI QIDQ280547

Jon Williamson, Jürgen Landes

Publication date: 10 May 2016

Published in: Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/e15093528

zbMATH Keywords

minimaxmaximum entropyscoring rule\(g\)-entropyBayesian conditionalisationgeneralised entropymaxentobjective Bayesianism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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