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Preface | p. ix |
Foundations | |
General and Continuous Solutions of the Entropy Equation | p. 3 |
The Gambler's Fallacy: A Bayesian Approach | p. 8 |
Recent Theoretical Progress on an Information Geometrodynamical Approach to Chaos | p. 16 |
From Inference to Physics | p. 23 |
The Origin of Probability and Entropy | p. 35 |
Gibbs Paradox and Similarity Principle | p. 49 |
About the Upper Bound of the Chiral Index of Multivariate Distributions | p. 61 |
The Canvas of Rationality | p. 67 |
On the Formal Expression of Observational Data in Scientific Inference: Ambiguities and Confusions | p. 80 |
A Possible Foundation for Blackwell's Equivalence | p. 90 |
Birnbaum's Theorem Redux | p. 96 |
Methods | |
The Empirical Bayes Estimator and Mixed Distributions | p. 103 |
A New Lifetime Distribution with Bathtube and Unimodal Hazard Function | p. 111 |
Annealed Adaptive Importance Sampling | p. 119 |
Combining Moments and Samples-A Bayesian Approach | p. 127 |
Sparse Factorization Methods for Inference in Bayesian Networks | p. 136 |
The Use of Several Link Functions on a Beta Regression Model: A Bayesian Approach | p. 144 |
The Lag Length of a Dynamic Regression Model: A Comparative Study | p. 150 |
FBST for Cointegration Problems | p. 157 |
Maximum-Entropy Moments-Based Approximations of the Cramér-Rao Bound | p. 165 |
A New Measure of Bivariate Asymmetry and Its Evaluation | p. 173 |
Maximizing the Entropy Rate of State-Dependent M/M/1 Queues | p. 181 |
Quality Control in Small Groups | p. 189 |
Dirichlet or Potts? | p. 197 |
Drift Estimation from a Simple Field Theory | p. 207 |
Parallel Systems Using the Weibull Model | p. 215 |
The Dimension of Information | p. 224 |
Full Bayesian Significance Test for a Class of Jump-Diffusion Models | p. 232 |
Applications | |
Variational Bayes Approach for Tomographic Reconstruction | p. 243 |
Maximum Entropy Principle for Transportation | p. 252 |
Maxent-Burg Applications to Muon-Spin Resonance | p. 260 |
On the Estimation of Process Parameters in the Taguchi's Approach to the On-Line Control Procedure for Attributes | p. 268 |
Robust Bayesian Priors with Applications to Clinical Trials: Information and Cross-Entropic Approaches | p. 278 |
Characterization of Interstellar Organic Molecules | p. 286 |
Antenna Array Design as Inference | p. 294 |
Proscriptive Bayesian Programming and Maximum Entropy: A Preliminary Study | p. 301 |
Bayesian Analysis of the Dynamic Structure in China's Economic Growth | p. 309 |
Hierarchical Forecasting with Functional Trees | p. 317 |
Analyzing Trade Dynamics from Incomplete Data in Spatial Regional Models: A Maximum Entropy Approach | p. 325 |
On the Black-Scholes European Option Pricing Model Robustness and Generality | p. 332 |
Inference on the Univariate Frailty Model: A Bayesian Reference Analysis Approach | p. 340 |
Optimizing Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) Using Bayesian Experimental Design | p. 348 |
Tutorial Books | |
Lectures on Probability, Entropy and Statistical Physics | p. 361 |
Cognitive Constructivism and the Epistemic Significance of Sharp Statistical Hypotheses | p. 364 |
Symmetry Studies of Entropy: An Introduction to Canonical Decompositions | p. 368 |
Group Photos | p. 371 |
Photo Gallery | p. 373 |
Author Index | p. 383 |
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