Nonadditive entropies yield probability distributions with biases not warranted by the data

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Pressé, Steve ^a   Ghosh, Kingshuk ^b   Lee, Julian ^c   Dill, Ken A ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c Soongsil University   (South Korea)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATIC FRAMEWORK; CONSISTENCY REQUIREMENTS; DATA COUPLING; LIMITED DATA; NONADDITIVE ENTROPIES; TSALLIS ENTROPIES; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

ENTROPY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ENTROPY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENTROPY; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84887115648     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.180604     Document Type: Article

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