一种高效计算最大熵密度的算法

An efficient algorithm to compute maximum entropy densities

Econometric Reviews · 1999
被引 76 · 同刊同年前 9%
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

提出一种基于Zellner和Highfield算法改进的方法,用于高效计算满足约束条件的最大熵密度,并通过实验证明其收敛性优于原算法。

Abstract

We describe an algorithm to efficiently compute maximum entropy densities, i.e. densities maximizing the Shannon entropy - under a set of constraints . Our method is based on an algorithm by Zellner and Highfield, which has been found not to converge under a variety of circumstances. To demonstrate that our method overcomes these difficulties, we conduct numerous experiments for the special case g i (x) = x i , n = 4. An extensive table of results for this case and computer code are available on the World Wide Web

最大熵密度算法收敛性