Reply to C. Tsallis’ 'Conceptual Inadequacy of the Shore and Johnson Axioms for Wide Classes of Complex Systems'

Autor: Steve Pressé, Kingshuk Ghosh, Julian Lee, Ken A. Dill
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Entropy, Vol 17, Iss 7, Pp 5043-5046 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e17075043
Popis: In a recent PRL (2013, 111, 180604), we invoked the Shore and Johnson axioms which demonstrate that the least-biased way to infer probability distributions fpig from data is to maximize the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy. We then showed which biases are introduced in models obtained by maximizing nonadditive entropies. A rebuttal of our work appears in entropy (2015, 17, 2853) and argues that the Shore and Johnson axioms are inapplicable to a wide class of complex systems. Here we highlight the errors in this reasoning.
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