Differential entropy is the entropy of a continuous random variable. It is related to the shortest description length and thus similar to the entropy of a discrete random variable. A basic introduction can be found in the book of Cover and Thomas [1]. In this paper, we are interested in the concept of shortest description length. Indeed, in a recent paper [2], we have investigated the case of s...

I discuss the statistical mechanics of gravitating systems and in particular its cosmological implications, and argue that many conventional views on this subject in the foundations of statistical mechanics embody significant confusion; I attempt to provide a clearer and more accurate account. In particular, I observe that (i) the role of gravity in entropy calculations must be distinguished fr...

We propose an unsupervised statistical region based active contour approach integrating an original fractional entropy measure for image segmentation with a particular application to single channel actin tagged fluorescence confocal microscopy image segmentation. Following description of statistical based active contour segmentation and the mathematical definition of the proposed fractional ent...

The random matrix ensembles (RME) of quantum statistical Hamiltonians, e.g. Gaussian random matrix ensembles (GRME) and Ginibre random matrix ensembles (Ginibre RME), are applied in literature to following quantum statistical systems: molecular systems, nuclear systems, disordered materials, random Ising spin systems, and two-dimensional electron systems (Wigner-Dyson electrostatic analogy). Me...

Random matrix ensembles (RME) of quantum statistical Hamiltonian operators, e.g. Gaussian random matrix ensembles (GRME) and Ginibre random matrix ensembles (Ginibre RME), found applications in literature in study of following quantum statistical systems: molecular systems, nuclear systems, disordered materials, random Ising spin systems, quantum chaotic systems, and two-dimensional electron sy...

In the framework of cell structure characterization for predictive oncology, we propose in this paper an unsupervised statistical region based active contour approach integrating an original fractional entropy measure for single channel actin tagged fluorescence confocal microscopy image segmentation. Following description of statistical based active contour segmentation and the mathematical de...

Maximum entropy states or statistical mechanical equilibrium solutions have played an important role in the development of a fundamental understanding of turbulence and its role in geophysical flows. In modern general circulation models of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans most parameterizations of the subgrid-scale energy and enstrophy transfers are based on ad hoc methods or ideas developed f...

This paper concentrates on a new procedure which experimentally recognises gears and bearings faults of a typical gearbox system using a least square support vector machine (LSSVM). Two wavelet selection criteria Maximum Energy to Shannon Entropy ratio and Maximum Relative Wavelet Energy are used and compared to select an appropriate wavelet for feature extraction. The fault diagnosis method co...

We give a survey of the basic statistical ideas underlying the definition of entropy in information theory and their connections with the entropy in the theory of dynamical systems and in statistical mechanics.

The paper describes an alternative approach to forecasting financial time series based on entropy (C. A. Zapart, On entropy, financial markets and minority games, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388 (7) 2009, pages 1157-1172). The research builds upon an earlier statistical analysis of financial time series with Shannon information entropy, published in (Molgedey, L and E...