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- From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
- Subject: Re: Entropy (was Prey and predator biomass)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.070537.12045@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: Crop Science Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620
- References: <1992Dec28.200413.38653@watson.ibm.com> <1992Dec30.190812.11305@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:05:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.190812.11305@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> tobis@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:
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- >While energy conservation is a purely thermodynamic principle, entropy
- >(as Claude Shannon's work showed) is actually a broader concept in information
- >theory, and the thermodynamic application is really only a special case.
- >........
- >
- >Does anyone know of any more sophisticated efforts by real statisticians to
- >apply the information theory concept of entropy to economics or ecology?
- >
- >mt
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- Maximum Entropy in Action
- Oxford: Clarion Press 1991
- Q370 .M382 1991
- A series of essays celebrating significant progress in certain
- applied areas (physics and others...) due to Jayne's Maximum
- Entropy Principle, an extension of Claude Shannon informational
- theoretic entropy.
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- Entropy Optimization Principle with Applications
- Kapur, Jagat
- Boston: Academic Press 1992
- Q370 .K37
- This one covers the appropriateness of Shannon's Entropy measure,
- shows how Jayne's Maximum Entropy extension allows independent
- derivation of virtually all statistical distributions in
- use in physics, and goes beyond....included applied problems
- in areas like urban planning and monetary affairs (stock market
- prediction).
-
- Both books are are readable, but don't hesitate to assume that you are
- a mathematician.
-
- Steve
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