Maximum entropy versus minimum risk and applications to some classical discrete distributions

Authors:
F. Topsoe
Affiliations:
Dept. of Math., Copenhagen Univ.
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The game which can be taken to lie behind the maximum-entropy principle is studied. Refining previous techniques, new theoretical results are obtained. These results are illustrated by concrete examples pertaining to well-known classical models.