Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

Maximum Entropy Methods

Lead instructor: Simon DeDeo

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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?
Answer 1: A.
Answer 2: B.
Answer 3: C.
Answer 4: D. All of the above are possible distributions obeying this constraint.