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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods - Cambridge, England, 1994 Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods - Cambridge, England, 1994 Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 70
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This volume records papers given at the fourteenth international
maximum entropy conference, held at St John's College Cambridge,
England. It seems hard to believe that just thirteen years have
passed since the first in the series, held at the University of
Wyoming in 1981, and six years have passed since the meeting last
took place here in Cambridge. So much has happened. There are two
major themes at these meetings, inference and physics. The
inference work uses the confluence of Bayesian and maximum entropy
ideas to develop and explore a wide range of scientific
applications, mostly concerning data analysis in one form or
another. The physics work uses maximum entropy ideas to explore the
thermodynamic world of macroscopic phenomena. Of the two, physics
has the deeper historical roots, and much of the inspiration behind
the inference work derives from physics. Yet it is no accident that
most of the papers at these meetings are on the inference side. To
develop new physics, one must use one's brains alone. To develop
inference, computers are used as well, so that the stunning
advances in computational power render the field open to rapid
advance. Indeed, we have seen a revolution. In the larger world of
statistics beyond the maximum entropy movement as such, there is
now an explosion of work in Bayesian methods, as the inherent
superiority of a defensible and consistent logical structure
becomes increasingly apparent in practice.
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