Ebook: Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods Garching, Germany 1998: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods of Statistical Analysis

In 1978 Edwin T. Jaynes and Myron Tribus initiated a series of workshops to exchange ideas and recent developments in technical aspects and applications of Bayesian probability theory. The first workshop was held at the University of Wyoming in 1981 organized by C.R. Smith and W.T. Grandy. Due to its success, the workshop was held annually during the last 18 years. Over the years, the emphasis of the workshop shifted gradually from fundamental concepts of Bayesian probability theory to increasingly realistic and challenging applications. The 18th international workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods was held in Garching / Munich (Germany) (27-31. July 1998). Opening lectures by G. Larry Bretthorst and by Myron Tribus were dedicated to one of th the pioneers of Bayesian probability theory who died on the 30 of April 1998: Edwin Thompson Jaynes. Jaynes revealed and advocated the correct meaning of 'probability' as the state of knowledge rather than a physical property. This inter­ pretation allowed him to unravel longstanding mysteries and paradoxes. Bayesian probability theory, "the logic of science" - as E.T. Jaynes called it - provides the framework to make the best possible scientific inference given all available exper­ imental and theoretical information. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Tribus and Bretthorst in commemorating the outstanding contributions of E.T. Jaynes to the development of probability theory.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Edwin Thompson Jaynes....Pages 1-10
A Tribute to Edwin T. Jaynes....Pages 11-20
The Near-Irrelevance of Sampling Frequency Distributions....Pages 21-46
Outlier Tolerant Parameter Estimation....Pages 47-56
Universality, Prior Information and Maximum Entropy in Foams....Pages 57-64
Texture Reconstruction in Noisy Images....Pages 65-72
Bayesian 3D X-Ray Reconstruction From Incomplete Noisy Data....Pages 73-82
A Bayesian Reflection on Surfaces....Pages 83-90
Quantum Entropy Regularization....Pages 91-98
Bayesian Reconstruction of Electron Energy Distributions from Emission Line Intensities....Pages 99-106
Depth Profile Reconstruction from Rutherford Backscattering Data....Pages 107-114
Bayesian Image Segmentation Using a Dynamic Pyramida Structure....Pages 115-122
Adaptive Image Reconstruction with Predictive Model....Pages 123-130
Are We Cruising a Hypothesis Space?....Pages 131-140
Fiducial Inference....Pages 141-148
Posterior Moments of the Cauchy Distribution....Pages 149-156
Bayesian Reasoning Versus Conventional Statistics in High Energy Physics....Pages 157-170
Model Comparison in Plasma Energy Confinement Scaling....Pages 171-178
Straight Lines....Pages 179-188
Bayesian Analysis with Application to the Timing Residuals of a Pulsar....Pages 189-198
Bayesian Labeling of Remote Sensing Image Content....Pages 199-206
Some Recent Developments in Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics....Pages 207-216
Convergent Bayesian Formulations of Blind Source Separation and Electromagnetic Source Estimation....Pages 217-226
A Maximum Entropy Approach for Estimating Nonlinear Dynamic Models....Pages 227-236
Probability and Entropy in Quantum Theory....Pages 237-246
Yet Another Derivation of The Principle of Maximum Entropy....Pages 247-270
Efficient Estimation of Missing Information in Multivalued Singly Connected Networks Using Maximum Entropy....Pages 271-288
Overview and Bayesian Perspective of Phase Unwrappin....Pages 289-300
Operation of The Bayes Inference Engine....Pages 301-308
The Prior-Predictive Value: A Paradigm of Nasty Multi-Dimensional Integrals....Pages 309-318
An Unsupervised Clustering Method by Entropy Minimization....Pages 319-326
Applications of the Maximum Entropy Method in Crystallography....Pages 327-334
Trace Metal Detection in Natural Water....Pages 335-340
Oscillator Stability Analysis Using a Bayesian Approach....Pages 341-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-352
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