Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

Maximum Entropy Methods

Lead instructor: Simon DeDeo

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2.1 A Simple Example: Waiting for a Taxicab » Quiz 1

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Question 1

Suppose you are given the following data:  a list of times (in minutes) that it took to find a cab in New York City:

(4  2  4  1  8  2  1  2 )

Suppose you are using the following constraint in order to apply a maximum entropy method to this data:

\left<x\right>=3

 Which of the following is not a possible distribution obeying this constraint?