In Defense of the Maximum Entropy Inference Process

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-103

  Paris, Jeff ^a   Vencovska A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inference process; Maximum entropy; Probabilistic reasoning; Uncertain reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038547503     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(97)00014-5     Document Type: Article

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