What is the question that MaxEnt answers? A probabilistic interpretation

@misc{citeulike:313320, abstract = {The Boltzmann-Wallis-Jaynes' multiplicity argument is taken up and elaborated. MaxEnt is proved and demonstrated to be just an asymptotic case of looking for such a vector of absolute frequencies in a feasible set, which has maximal probability of being generated by a uniform prior generator/pmf.}, author = {Grendar, Marian and Grendar, Marian }, citeulike-article-id = {313320}, comment = {The core argument in resolving the N-independence of MaxEnt.}, eprint = {math-ph/0009020}, keywords = {entropy, maxent, maximum}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2005-09-08 05:09:18}, priority = {5}, title = {What is the question that MaxEnt answers? A probabilistic interpretation}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0009020}, year = {2000} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:313320 L3 - citeulike-article-id:313320 TI - What is the question that MaxEnt answers? A probabilistic interpretation N2 - The Boltzmann-Wallis-Jaynes' multiplicity argument is taken up and elaborated. MaxEnt is proved and demonstrated to be just an asymptotic case of looking for such a vector of absolute frequencies in a feasible set, which has maximal probability of being generated by a uniform prior generator/pmf. KW - entropy KW - maxent KW - maximum N1 - The core argument in resolving the N-independence of MaxEnt. AU - Grendar, Marian AU - Grendar, Marian PY - 2000/Sep/13/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0009020 ER -