Complexity Explorer Santa Fe Institute

Maximum Entropy Methods

Lead instructor: Simon DeDeo

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6.1 Review of MaxEnt » Quiz Solution

1. Answer:  a.   As Simon describes in the video, only the mean (or expectation) of the data is constrained to be the same in the maximum entropy distribution.

 

2. Answer: c.  Simon emphasizes that the maximum entropy distribution does not make any assumptions about what the mechanism is underlying the observed data.