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The paper deals with the statistical characterization of thermal equilibrium of a system on the basis of the statistical theory of information, estimation and the phenomenological principles of classical thermodynamics.
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Chakrabarti, C.G., Mukhopadhyay, V. On statistics and thermodynamics V. Czech J Phys 36, 1019–1025 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01597764
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