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Maximum Entropy and the Variational Method in Statistical Mechanics: an Application to Simple Fluids
Chih-Yuan Tseng, Ariel Caticha
We develop the method of Maximum Entropy (ME) as a technique to generate approximations to probability distributions. The central results consist in (a) justifying the use of relat…
cond-mat.stat-mech2004
Questions, relevance and relative entropy
Ariel Caticha
What is a question? According to Cox a question can be identified with the set of assertions that constitute possible answers. In this paper we propose a different approach that co…