Maximization — or maximisation can refer to: Maximization in the sense of exaggeration Entropy maximization Maximization (economics) Profit maximization Utility maximization problem Budget maximizing model Shareholder value maximization Optimization… … Wikipedia
Entropy and life — Much writing has been devoted to Entropy and life. Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and the evolution of life began in around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910, American historian Henry Adams… … Wikipedia
Entropy (statistical thermodynamics) — In thermodynamics, statistical entropy is the modeling of the energetic function entropy using probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective was introduced in 1870 with the work of the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. Mathematical… … Wikipedia
Principle of maximum entropy — This article is about the probability theoretic principle. For the classifier in machine learning, see maximum entropy classifier. For other uses, see maximum entropy (disambiguation). Bayesian statistics Theory Bayesian probability Probability… … Wikipedia
Maximum entropy — may refer to: The principle of maximum entropy The maximum entropy probability distribution Maximum entropy spectral estimation Maximum entropy spectral analysis Maximum entropy thermodynamics The law of maximum entropy production Entropy… … Wikipedia
Differential entropy — (also referred to as continuous entropy) is a concept in information theory that extends the idea of (Shannon) entropy, a measure of average surprisal of a random variable, to continuous probability distributions. Contents 1 Definition 2… … Wikipedia
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List of numerical analysis topics — This is a list of numerical analysis topics, by Wikipedia page. Contents 1 General 2 Error 3 Elementary and special functions 4 Numerical linear algebra … Wikipedia
Kullback–Leibler divergence — In probability theory and information theory, the Kullback–Leibler divergence[1][2][3] (also information divergence, information gain, relative entropy, or KLIC) is a non symmetric measure of the difference between two probability distributions P … Wikipedia
Trip distribution — (or destination choice or zonal interchange analysis), is the second component (after trip generation, but before mode choice and route assignment) in the traditional four step transportation forecasting model. This step matches tripmakers’… … Wikipedia
