Can the maximum entropy principle be explained as a consistency requirement?
- 1 December 1995
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
- Vol. 26 (3) , 223-261
- https://doi.org/10.1016/1355-2198(95)00015-1
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