Student's t- and r-distributions: Unified derivation from an entropic variational principle

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 52-57

  De Souza, André M C ^a,b   Tsallis, Constantino ^a  

^a CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Generalized entropy; r distribution; Student's t distribution; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

GENERALIZED ENTROPY; R DISTRIBUTION; STUDENT T DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0031076680     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00395-0     Document Type: Article

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