Clearing up the mysteries

Maximum Entropy: Clearing up Mysteries

There are several mystifications and a couple of mysteries pertinent to MaxEnt. The mystifications, pitfalls and traps are set up mainly by an unfortunate formulation of Jaynes’ die problem, the cause célèbre of MaxEnt. After discussing the mystifications a new formulation of the problem is proposed. Then we turn to the mysteries. An answer to the recurring question ’Just what are we accomplish...

Clearing up Mysteries { the Original Goal

We show how the character of a scienti c theory depends on one's attitude toward probability. Many circumstances seem mysterious or paradoxical to one who thinks that probabilities are real physical properties existing in Nature. But when we adopt the \Bayesian Inference" viewpoint of Harold Je reys, paradoxes often become simple platitudes and we have a more powerful tool for useful calculatio...

Clearing Up Homicide Clearance Rates

Clearing Up the Confusion about Medicare and Dentistry.

With the growing number of air passengers, flight at­ tendants, leisure pilots, as well as military and airline pilots, dentists may encounter physiological and patho­ logical phenomena precipitated by high altitude. With the introduction of the self-contained breathing appa­ ratus (SCUBA), many of these manifestations caused by changes in atmospheric pressure were reported in association with ...

Oral and overall health: clearing up the confusion.

For several years dental researchers have been studying and reporting on links between oral and overall health, but study evidence often seems to offer conflicting information. This article aims to clear up that confusion.