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Generalized measurement of uncertainty and the maximizable entropy

Statistical Mechanics 2008-10-27 v1

Abstract

For a random variable we can define a variational relationship with practical physical meaning as dI=dbar(x)-bar(dx), where I is called as uncertainty measurement. With the help of a generalized definition of expectation, bar(x)=sum_(i)g(p_i)x_i, and the expression of dI, we can find the concrete forms of the maximizable entropies for any given probability distribution function, where g(p_i) may have different forms for different statistics which includes the extensive and nonextensive statistics.

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@article{arxiv.0810.4345,
  title  = {Generalized measurement of uncertainty and the maximizable entropy},
  author = {Congjie Ou and Aziz El Kaabouchi and Alain Le Mehaute and Qiuping A. Wang and Jincan Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4345},
  year   = {2008}
}

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