Lecture 14; Math 636
LEFTOVERS
Duality
projective
geometry
THREADS
ÒYou will all have to choose one of
the presented projects to join for the last five weeks of the course.Ó
Talks?
NEW
MaxEnt distributions (see also the handout in course documents)
All allocations equally likely
Multinomials – The number of ways an allocation can occur
Stirling
The optimal distribution
Review problem – extrema of x2+y2 on y=x2-1.
The maxEnt distribution
Applications http://www.brastex.info/maxent2008/