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Maximum Entropy Estimation

Maximum Entropy Estimation is a parameter estimation method that selects the probability distribution with the highest entropy subject to a set of constraints derived from the observed data, thereby ensuring minimal assumptions beyond the given information.

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Maxent EstimationMaximum Entropy Method

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Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics

E. T. Jaynes · Physical Review · 1957 · 12.9K citations

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Fast and robust fixed-point algorithms for independent component analysis

Aapo Hyvärinen · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks · 1999 · 6.3K citations

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A maximum entropy approach to natural language processing

Adam Berger, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Stephen A. Della Pietra · 1996 · 3.1K citations

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar

Richard G. Pearson, Christopher J. Raxworthy, Miguel Nakamura et al. · Journal of Biogeography · 2006 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

Mary S. Wisz, Robert J. Hijmans, Jin Li et al. · Diversity and Distributions · 2008 · 2.5K citations

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    John Skilling

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    12 publications · 2K citations

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  2. AT
    Aldo Tagliani

    University of Trento, Italy

    11 publications · 333 citations

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    B. Roy Frieden

    University of Arizona, United States

    9 publications · 937 citations

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    A. K. Livesey

    Université Paris-Sud, France

    8 publications · 1K citations

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    Makoto Sakata

    Nagoya University, Japan

    8 publications · 241 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    75 publications

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  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

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    87 publications

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  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    19 h-index

    37 publications

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  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    47 publications

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  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    18 h-index

    28 publications

    1.6K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    16 h-index

    27 publications

    7.1K citations

  7. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

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    24 publications

    3.5K citations

  8. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

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    32 publications

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  1. Entropy

    37 publications · 813 citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 19 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 22 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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  5. PLoS ONE

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