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Maximum Entropy Characterizations of Some Distributions

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A Modern Course on Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((ASIC,volume 17))

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A general form is given for densities which maximize the entropy in a class of distributions having specified values for the expectations of certain functions of the random variables. Characterizations of several well-known distributions are obtained.

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  1. University of California, Riverside, USA

    D. V. Gokhale

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  1. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., USA

    Ganapati P. Patil

  2. Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    Samuel Kotz

  3. University of Warwick, Coventry, England

    J. K. Ord

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Gokhale, D.V. (1975). Maximum Entropy Characterizations of Some Distributions. In: Patil, G.P., Kotz, S., Ord, J.K. (eds) A Modern Course on Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1848-7_27

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