Maximum Entropy and Conditional Probability

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1981, Pages 483-489

  Van Campenhout, Jan M ^a   Cover, Thomas M ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0019587055     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.1981.1056374     Document Type: Article

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