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In May 1978 a three-day Symposium on ‘The Maximum-Entropy Formalism’ held at M.I.T. provided a good opportunity to put into the record a more comprehensive summing up than had been attempted until then. The following lengthy article was written hastily in a few weeks, to meet a publication deadline; and the rough unpolished edges show everywhere. Still, the Proceedings Volume did appear in December 1978, probably a speed record.
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Rosenkrantz, R.D. (1989). Where Do We Stand on Maximum Entropy? (1978). In: Rosenkrantz, R.D. (eds) E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical Physics. Synthese Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6581-2_10
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