Maximum entropy inference with quantified knowledge

Logic Journal of the IGPL

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-98

  Barnett, Owen ^a   Paris, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Logic; Maximum entropy; Probability logic; Uncertain reasoning

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC;

ENTROPY INFERENCE; FINITE DOMAINS; LIMITING CASE; LOGIC; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY; PROBABILITY LOGIC; UNCERTAIN REASONING;

CALCULATIONS;

EID: 38949126924     PISSN: 13670751     EISSN: 13689894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jigpal/jzm028     Document Type: Article

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