A note on the inevitability of maximum entropy

DOI10.1016/0888-613X(90)90020-3zbMATH Open0697.68089MaRDI QIDQ911803FDOQ911803

Authors: A. Vensovská, Jeff Paris 

Publication date: 1990

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

probabilisticmaximum entropyinductive inferencecommonsense principleinexact reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability and inductive logic (03B48)

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