Title :
Maximum entropy and applications to some classical discrete distributions
Author :
Topsoe, Flemming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Copenhagen Univ., Denmark
Abstract :
The game which can be taken to lie behind the maximum entropy principle is studied. Refining previous techniques, new theoretical results are obtained. These results are illustrated by concrete examples pertaining to well known classical models.
Keywords :
Poisson distribution; binomial distribution; information theory; maximum entropy methods; probability; Poisson distribution; binomial distribution; classical discrete distributions; empirical distribution; geometric distribution; information divergence; maximum entropy principle; multinomial distribution; probability distributions; Concrete; Convergence; Distributed computing; Entropy; Joining processes; Mathematics; Permission; Terminology;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Workshop, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7629-3
DOI :
10.1109/ITW.2002.1115428
