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Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics [E-Book] : ... or Why Things Tend to Go Wrong and Seem to Get Worse /
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How Small Social Systems Work [E-Book] : From Soccer Teams to Jazz Trios and Families /
Table of Contents: ... is the enemy of soccer: On constraints, Thai boxing, and love triangles -- How messy should you be to win a match? On the yin and yang of entropy -- Unique interactions: On chemistry in love and soccer -- How to identify the weakest link in the chain: From Sir...

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Introduction to Quantum Information Science [E-Book] /
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Entropy, Large Deviations, and Statistical Mechanics [E-Book] /
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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods Garching, Germany 1998 [E-Book] : Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods of Statistical Analysis /
Table of Contents: ...Edwin Thompson Jaynes -- A Tribute to Edwin T. Jaynes -- The Near-Irrelevance of Sampling Frequency Distributions -- Outlier Tolerant Parameter Estimation -- Universality, Prior Information and Maximum Entropy in Foams -- Texture Reconstruction in Noisy...

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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods [E-Book] : Boise, Idaho, USA, 1997 Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods of Statistical Analysis /
Table of Contents: ...Massive Inference and Maximum Entropy -- CV-NP Bayesianism by MCMC -- Which Algorithms are Feasible? A Maxent Approach -- Maximum Entropy, Likelihood and Uncertainty: A Comparison -- Probabilistic Methods for Data Fusion -- Whence the Laws of Probability...

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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods [E-Book] : Cambridge, England, 1994 Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods /
Table of Contents: ...Applications -- Flow and diffusion images from Bayesian spectral analysis of motion-encoded NMR data -- Bayesian estimation of MR images from incomplete raw data -- Quantified maximum entropy and biological EPR spectra -- The vital importance of prior...

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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods [E-Book] : Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., 1995 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods /
Table of Contents: ... Bayesian Networks -- The Bootstrap is Inconsistent with Probability Theory -- Data-Driven Priors for Hyperparameters in Regularization -- Mixture Modeling to Incorporate Meaningful Constraints Into Learning -- Maximum Entropy (Maxent) Method in Expert Systems...

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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods [E-Book] : Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A., 1993 /
Table of Contents: ... Analysis -- Bayesian Robustness -- Bayesian Robustness: A New Look from Geometry -- Local Posterior Robustness with Parametric Priors: Maximum and Average Sensitivity -- Clustering -- Tree-Structured Clustering via the Minimum Cross Entropy Principle -- Inverse...

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Real and Complex Dynamical Systems [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...Dynamical Zeta Functions -- The Global Dynamics of Impact Oscillators -- Grazing in Impact Oscillators -- Topological Entropy of Unimodal Maps -- Hénon Mappings in the Complex Domain -- Symbolic Dynamics, Group Automorphisms and Markov Partitions -- A...

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Stochastic Analysis and Applications in Physics [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... -- Colombeau Generalized Functions and Stochastic Analysis -- Constructive Field Theoretic Methods and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations -- Quantum Yang-Mills Theory on Compact Surfaces -- Entropy and KMS Norms -- An Introduction to White Noise Analysis...

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Probabilistic and Stochastic Methods in Analysis, with Applications [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... -- Linear and non-linear decomposition of images using Gabor wavelets -- Multiresolution analyses, tiles, and scaling functions -- II Applications in engineering -- Innovations and entropy rate with applications in factorization, spectral estimation...

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Nonparametric Functional Estimation and Related Topics [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... Regression -- Data-Adaptive Kernel Estimation -- On the Nonparametric Estimation of the Entropy Functional -- II. Curve and Functional Estimation (Continued) -- Analysis of Samples of Curves -- Bootstrap Methods in Nonparametric Regression -- On the Influence...

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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... to Sea Floor Pressure Data -- Applications of Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Neutron Scattering -- The Conditional Entropy of a Canonical Constraint -- Solving Oversampled Data Problems by Maximum Entropy -- Constructing Priors in Maximum Entropy...

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From Newton to Mandelbrot [E-Book] : A Primer in Theoretical Physics /
Table of Contents: ... and Entropy -- 4.2 Thermodynamics of the Equilibrium -- 4.3 Statistical Mechanics of Ideal and Real Systems -- 5. Fractals in Theoretical Physics -- 5.1 Non-random Fractals -- 5.2 Random Fractals: The Unbiased Random Walk -- 5.3 ‘A Single Length’ -- 5.4 Functional...

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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods [E-Book] : Cambridge, England, 1988 /
Table of Contents: ...Tutorial -- Clearing up Mysteries — The Original Goal -- From Rationality and Consistency to Bayesian Probability -- Classic Maximum Entropy -- Developments in Maximum Entropy Data Analysis -- The Three Phases of Statistical Mechanics -- Bell’s Theorem...

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Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering [E-Book] : Foundations /
Table of Contents: ...How does the Brain Do Plausible Reasoning? -- The Relation of Bayesian and Maximum Entropy Methods -- An Engineer Looks at Bayes -- Bayesian Inductive Inference and Maximum Entropy -- Excerpts from Bayesian Spectrum Analysis and Parameter Estimation...

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Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering [E-Book] : Volume 2: Applications /
Table of Contents: ...Seti, Radon Transforms, and Optimization -- Inductive Inference by Neutral Networks -- On the Efficiency of a Class of Maximum Entropy Estimators -- Quantum Statistical Mechanics in Phase Space and the Classical Limit -- Superposition Effects...

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Premium Calculation in Insurance [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... and social security projections for Bangladesh -- Stability of premium principles under maximum entropy perturbations -- Practical rating of variable accident excess-loss premiums -- Motor premium rating -- The mean square error of a randomly discounted sequence...

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Nonlinear Stochastic Problems [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...I - Introduction -- Overview of the ASI on Nonlinear Stochastic Problems -- II - Spectral Estimation -- Estimation of structured covariance matrices: A generalization of the Burg technique -- Classification of radar clutter using the maximum-entropy...

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