• DocumentCode
    976584
  • Title

    Dice, entropy, and likelihood

  • Author

    Frieden, B. Roy

  • Author_Institution
    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
  • Volume
    73
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1985
  • Firstpage
    1764
  • Lastpage
    1770
  • Abstract
    We show that a famous die experiment used by E. T. Jaynes as intuitive justification of the need for maximum entropy (ME) estimation admits, in fact, of solutions by classical, Bayesian estimation. The Bayesian answers are the maximum probable (m.a.p.) and posterior mean solutions to the problem. These depart radically from the ME solution, and are also much more probable answers.
  • Keywords
    Bayesian methods; Computed tomography; Entropy; Optical sensors; Physics; Terminology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1985.13369
  • Filename
    1457637