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Is the Maximum Entropy Principle Operationally Justifiable?

Author : I. Csiszár

Published in: Open Problems in Communication and Computation

Publisher: Springer New York

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Let X be a random variable originally believed to have distribution Q. When new information is obtained suggesting that the distribution of X actually belongs to a set of distributions Π not containing the original guess Q, this should be updated to conform with the new information. Intuitively a proper updating should be that element of Π which is closest to the original guess Q. It remains to specify the measure of distance between distributions to be used to find this closest element.

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Title
Is the Maximum Entropy Principle Operationally Justifiable?
Author
I. Csiszár
Copyright Year
1987
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Open Problems in Communication and Computation

Print ISBN: 978-1-4612-9162-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4612-4808-8

Copyright Year: 1987

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4808-8_6

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