English

MaxEnt assisted MaxLik tomography

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Maximum likelihood estimation is a valuable tool often applied to inverse problems in quantum theory. Estimation from small data sets can, however, have non unique solutions. We discuss this problem and propose to use Jaynes maximum entropy principle to single out the most unbiased maximum-likelihood guess.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0404121,
  title  = {MaxEnt assisted MaxLik tomography},
  author = {J. Rehacek and Z. Hradil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0404121},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures, presented at MaxEnt conference in Jackson, WY, 2003