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The Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) is not a completely different approach from Conventional Direct Methods (CDM) : it is an improvement of the latter at the level of the techniques of Analytic Probability Theory on which they are based.

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Bricogne, G. (1991). Introduction to Maximum Entropy. In: Schenk, H. (eds) Direct Methods of Solving Crystal Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 274. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3692-9_16

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