Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods Garching, Germany 1998

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Edwin Thompson Jaynes

   • G. Larry Bretthorst

   Pages 1-10

3. A Tribute to Edwin T. Jaynes

   • M. Tribus

   Pages 11-20

4. The Near-Irrelevance of Sampling Frequency Distributions

   • G. Larry Bretthorst

   Pages 21-46

5. Outlier Tolerant Parameter Estimation

   • V. Dose, W. Von Der Linden

   Pages 47-56

6. Universality, Prior Information and Maximum Entropy in Foams

   • N. Rivier, B. Dubertret, T. Aste, H. Ohlenbusch

   Pages 57-64

7. Texture Reconstruction in Noisy Images

   • M. Walessa, M. Datcu

   Pages 65-72

8. Bayesian 3D X-Ray Reconstruction From Incomplete Noisy Data

   • V. Vengrinovich, Yu. Denkevich, G.-R. Tillack

   Pages 73-82

9. A Bayesian Reflection on Surfaces

   • David R. Wolf

   Pages 83-90

10. Quantum Entropy Regularization

    • R. N. Silver

    Pages 91-98

11. Bayesian Reconstruction of Electron Energy Distributions from Emission Line Intensities

    • E. Fischer, W. Jacob, W. Von Der Linden, V. Dose

    Pages 99-106

12. Depth Profile Reconstruction from Rutherford Backscattering Data

    • U. V. Toussaint, K. Krieger, R. Fischer, V. Dose

    Pages 107-114

13. Bayesian Image Segmentation Using a Dynamic Pyramida Structure

    • H. Rehrauer, K. Seidel, M. Datcu

    Pages 115-122

14. Adaptive Image Reconstruction with Predictive Model

    • V. M. Artemiev, A. O. Naumov, G.-R. Tillack

    Pages 123-130

15. Are We Cruising a Hypothesis Space?

    • C. C. Rodriguez

    Pages 131-140

16. Fiducial Inference

    • Diemer Salomé

    Pages 141-148

17. Posterior Moments of the Cauchy Distribution

    • David R. Wolf

    Pages 149-156

18. Bayesian Reasoning Versus Conventional Statistics in High Energy Physics

    • G. D’Agostini

    Pages 157-170

19. Model Comparison in Plasma Energy Confinement Scaling

    • R. Preuss, V. Dose, W. Von Der Linden

    Pages 171-178

20. Straight Lines

    • Do Kester

    Pages 179-188

In 1978 Edwin T. Jaynes and Myron Tribus initiated a series of workshops to exchange ideas and recent developments in technical aspects and applications of Bayesian probability theory. The first workshop was held at the University of Wyoming in 1981 organized by C.R. Smith and W.T. Grandy. Due to its success, the workshop was held annually during the last 18 years. Over the years, the emphasis of the workshop shifted gradually from fundamental concepts of Bayesian probability theory to increasingly realistic and challenging applications. The 18th international workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods was held in Garching / Munich (Germany) (27-31. July 1998). Opening lectures by G. Larry Bretthorst and by Myron Tribus were dedicated to one of th the pioneers of Bayesian probability theory who died on the 30 of April 1998: Edwin Thompson Jaynes. Jaynes revealed and advocated the correct meaning of 'probability' as the state of knowledge rather than a physical property. This inter­ pretation allowed him to unravel longstanding mysteries and paradoxes. Bayesian probability theory, "the logic of science" - as E.T. Jaynes called it - provides the framework to make the best possible scientific inference given all available exper­ imental and theoretical information. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Tribus and Bretthorst in commemorating the outstanding contributions of E.T. Jaynes to the development of probability theory.

• Maximum entropy method
• Probability theory
• bayesian statistics
• clustering
• coding
• coding theory
• data analysis
• image processing
• inference engine
• information
• information theory
• machine learning
• sensing
• statistics

• Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

  Wolfgang Linden

• Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany

  Volker Dose, Rainer Fischer, Roland Preuss

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