[R] code for maximum entropy formalism

Bill Shipley Bill.Shipley at Usherbrooke.ca
Mon Dec 2 14:27:03 CET 2002


Hello.  The "maximum entropy formalism" is a general method of choosing the 
probability distribution that has maximum entropy, subject to constraints 
on its moments.  Does anyone have code for performing this (for discrete 
and for continuous distributions)?
Thanks.

Bill Shipley
Departement de biologie
Universite de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke (Quebec) CANADA J1K 2R9
Bill.Shipley at USherbrooke.ca
http://callisto.si.usherb.ca:8080/bshipley/




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