Measurement Invariance, Entropy, and Probability

Measurement Invariance, Entropy, and Probability

We show that the natural scaling of measurement for a particular problem defines the most likely probability distribution of observations taken from that measurement scale. Our approach extends the method of maximum entropy to use measurement scale as a type of information constraint. We argue that...

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Main Authors: D. Eric Smith, Steven A. Frank
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-02-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
maximum entropy
information theory
superstatistics
power law
Student’s distribution
gamma distribution
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/3/289/

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