A practical computational framework for the multidimensional moment-constrained maximum entropy principle

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 198-209

  Abramov, Rafail ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARBITRARY NUMBER; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; MOMENT CONSTRAINTS; PHASE SPACES; PRIOR INFORMATION; SMOOTH APPROXIMATION; SPACE DIMENSIONS; VERSATILE TOOLS;

NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

EID: 25444532546     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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