A critical comparison of three information-based approaches to physics

Foundations of Physics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-96

  Frieden, B Roy ^a   Soffer, B H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme physical information; Maximum entropy; Minimum Fisher information; Variational principles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034386123     PISSN: 08949875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007725804670     Document Type: Article

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