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The Maximum Entropy Method

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Nailong Wu

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Information Sciences (SSINF, volume 32)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Nailong Wu
    Pages 1-13

  3. Maximum Entropy Method MEM1 and Its Application in Spectral Analysis

    • Nailong Wu
    Pages 15-108

  4. Maximum Entropy Method MEM2 and Its Application in Image Restoration

    • Nailong Wu
    Pages 109-190

  5. Analysis and Comparison of the Maximum Entropy Method

    • Nailong Wu
    Pages 191-249

  6. Applications of the Maximum Entropy Method in Mathematics and Physics

    • Nailong Wu
    Pages 251-304

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 305-328
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Forty years ago, in 1957, the Principle of Maximum Entropy was first intro­ duced by Jaynes into the field of statistical mechanics. Since that seminal publication, this principle has been adopted in many areas of science and technology beyond its initial application. It is now found in spectral analysis, image restoration and a number of branches ofmathematics and physics, and has become better known as the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM). Today MEM is a powerful means to deal with ill-posed problems, and much research work is devoted to it. My own research in the area ofMEM started in 1980, when I was a grad­ uate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. This research work was the basis of my Ph.D. the­ sis, The Maximum Entropy Method and Its Application in Radio Astronomy, completed in 1985. As well as continuing my research in MEM after graduation, I taught a course of the same name at the Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijingfrom 1987to 1990. Delivering the course was theimpetus for developing a structured approach to the understanding of MEM and writing hundreds of pages of lecture notes.

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  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Nailong Wu

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