Maximum Entropy in Action A Collection of Expository Essays

Name: Maximum Entropy in Action A Collection of Expository Essays
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ISBN: 9780198539414

ISBN-10: 019853941X

ISBN-13: 9780198539414

Edition: 1991

Authors: Brian Buck, Vincent A. Macaulay

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This book is a collection of introductory, interdisciplinary articles and lectures covering the fundamentals of the maximum entropy approach, a powerful new technique that provides a much needed extension of the established principles of rational inference in the sciences. Maximum entropy allows the interpretation of incomplete and "noisy" data, providing a description of the underlying physical systems. It has found application in both practical and theoretical studies ranging from image enhancement to nuclear physics, and from statistical mechanics to economics. The work explores these applications with specific problems of data analysis taken from the physical sciences. It will interest…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/7/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 250
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.56" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Of Maps and Monkeys
Fundamentals of MaxEnt in Data Analysis
Maximum Entropy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Enhanced Information Recovery in Spectroscopy
Maximum Entropy and Plasma Physics
Macroirreversibility and Microreversibility Reconciled
Some Misconceptions About Entropy
The X-ray Crystallographic Phase Problem
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