Tseng, Chih-Yuan; Caticha, Ariel - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 27, pp. 6759-6770
We develop a maximum relative entropy formalism to generate optimal approximations to probability distributions. The central results consist of (a) justifying the use of relative entropy as the uniquely natural criterion to select a preferred approximation from within a family of trial...