Measurement invariance, entropy, and probability

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-303

  Frank, Steven A ^a,b   Smith, D Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Information theory; Maximum entropy; Power law; Student's distribution; Superstatistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953528430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12030289     Document Type: Article

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