Minimum cross-entropy reasoning: a statistical justification

Authors:
Manfred Jaeger
Affiliations:
Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany
Venue:
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Year:
1995

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Abstract

Degrees of belief are formed using observed evidence and statistical background information. In this paper we examine the process of how prior degrees of belief derived from the evidence are combined with statistical data to form more specific degrees of belief. A statistical model for this process then is shown to vindicate the cross-entropy minimization principle as a rule for probabilistic default-inference.