Timeline for Why is Beta the maximum entropy distribution over Bernoulli's parameter?
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| Dec 8, 2010 at 8:50 | vote | accept | Neil | ||
| Dec 8, 2010 at 8:49 | vote | accept | Neil | ||
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| Nov 22, 2010 at 15:40 | answer | added | ternary | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 18:46 | comment | added | Neil | John, what do you mean cite sources for the confusion? | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 18:44 | comment | added | Neil | Right, thanks. So, what's the constraint in this case? Surely, our expected odds is 1, but Beta-prime(1,1) is not the same distribution as Exponential(1). | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 6:14 | answer | added | R Hahn | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 5:00 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | The exponential distribution is the one that maximizes entropy SUBJECT TO a constraint on the expected value. | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 3:46 | comment | added | John Jiang | You might want to cite some sources for the confusion. My guess is the underlying measure is not uniform over the real interval you are working with. | |
| Aug 29, 2010 at 2:29 | history | asked | Neil | CC BY-SA 2.5 |