• DocumentCode
    929655
  • Title

    Comments on "Prior probability and uncertainty" by Kashyap, R. L.

  • Author

    Johnson, Rodney W.

  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    1/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    129
  • Lastpage
    132
  • Abstract
    The above fbox{paper1}% proposes a method for choosing prior probability distributions by finding the rain-max of an uncertainty functional that obeys certain axioms. Several functionals are exhibited here that obey the axioms, but do not belong to the family considered in the paper and are thus counterexamples to theorems in the paper asserting the uniqueness of the functionals. Errors in the former proofs are pointed out, possible corrections are discussed, and a lemma is corrected.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1979.1055997
  • Filename
    1055997