• DocumentCode
    2607581
  • Title

    Maximum entropy and applications to some classical discrete distributions

  • Author

    Topsoe, Flemming

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math., Copenhagen Univ., Denmark
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    20-25 Oct. 2002
  • Firstpage
    104
  • Lastpage
    107
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory Workshop, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7629-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITW.2002.1115428
  • Filename
    1115428