Maximum Entropy Models in Science and Engineering
Published on 27. July 1990
Book
Hardback
635 pages
978-0-470-21459-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Maximum-Entropy Principle was first stated explicitly in 1957 and has since been applied with varying degrees of success in a very wide range of fields. This is the first comprehensive book about the Maximum Entropy Principle and its applications to some of these fields, including statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, business, economics, insurance, finance, contingency tables, characterisation of probability distributions, statistical inference, non-linear spectral analysis of time series, pattern recognition, marketing and elections, operations research and reliability theory, image processing, computerised tomography, biology and medicine. Based on the principles that any subject can be learnt only by doing it and not just by reading about it, over six hundred specially-constructed exercises have been given throughout the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1092 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-21459-6 (9780470214596)
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Content
Partial table of contents:; Maximum--Entropy Probability Distributions: Principles, Formalism and Techniques.; Maximum--Entropy Discrete Univariate Probability Distributions.; Maximum--Entropy Discrete Multivariate Probability Distributions.; Maximum--Entropy Continuous Multivariate Probability Distributions.; Maximum--Entropy Distributions in Statistical Mechanics.; Minimum Discrepancy Measures.; Concavity (Convexity) of Maximum--Entropy (Minimum Information) Functions.; Equivalence of Maximum--Entropy Principle and Gauss's Principle of Density Estimation.; Maximum--Entropy Principle and Contingency Tables.; Maximum--Entropy Principle and Statistics.; Maximum--Entropy Models in Regional and Urban Planning.; Maximum--Entropy Models in Marketing and Elections.; Maximum--Entropy Spectral Analysis.; Maximum--Entropy Image Reconstruction.; Maximum--Entropy Principle in Operations Research.; References.; Author Index.; Subject Index.