Partition function approach to non-Gaussian likelihoods: information theory and state variables for Bayesian inference

The significance of statistical physics concepts such as entropy extends far beyond classical thermodynamics. We interpret the similarity between partitions in statistical mechanics and partitions in Bayesian inference as an articulation of a result by Jaynes (1957), who clarified that thermodynamic...

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Main Authors: Rebecca Maria Kuntz, Heinrich von Campe, Tobias Röspel, Maximilian Philipp Herzog, Björn Malte Schäfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maynooth Academic Publishing 2025-03-01
Series:The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.131858
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