Maximum entropy: Clearing up mysteries
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Maximum entropy: Clearing up mysteries
zbMATH Open document ID: 1004.94525
author: M. Grendár
author: Marián Grendár
published in: Entropy
publication date: 2002-09-10T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: list01.htm
review text: Summary: There are several mystifications and a couple of mysteries pertinent to MaxEnt. The mystifications, pitfalls and traps are set up mainly by an unfortunate formulation of Jaynes' die problem, the cause célèbre of MaxEnt. After discussing the mystifications, a new formulation of the problem is proposed. Then we turn to the mysteries. An answer to the recurring question 'Just what are we accomplishing when we maximize entropy?', based on MaxProb rationale of MaxEnt, is recalled. A brief view on the other mystery: 'What is the relation between MaxEnt and the Bayesian method?', in light of the MaxProb rationale of MaxEnt suggests that there is not and cannot be a conflict between MaxEnt and Bayes theorem.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 94A17
zbMATH DE Number: 1796706
zbMATH Keywords: maximum entropy
zbMATH Keywords: maximum probability
zbMATH Keywords: Jaynes' die problem
zbMATH Keywords: maximum likelihood
zbMATH Keywords: minimax entropy
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2004491938
DOI: 10.3390/E3020058
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1796706