A maximum entropy approach to estimation and inference in dynamic models or counting fish in the sea using maximum entropy

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 559-582

  Golan, Amos ^a   Judge, George ^a   Karp, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic discrete time system; Inverse control problem; Maximum entropy principle; Optimal control; Time series data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030115958     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1889(95)00864-0     Document Type: Article

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