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  1. Department of Mathematics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Downsview, Ont., Canada

    Silviu Guiasu & Abe Shenitzer

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Guiasu, S., Shenitzer, A. The principle of maximum entropy. The Mathematical Intelligencer 7, 42–48 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023004

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