> (d) I suspect that this handwave (and it is a big one) can be made > rigorous by means of the calculus of variations, turning the local > maximization of entropy subject to int[f(x)dx]=1 into a differential > equation to which these are the solutions. (But I've never tried.)
This is done by Chris Bishop in his book, Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, section 6.10. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
