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School of Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Professor David Edelman
Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Wollongong
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Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Entropy, Information-Theoretic, Coding, and Description-Length
Considerations in Mathematical Modelling
Wednesday, May 10th, 2-3pm, Carslaw 275.
An approach towards unifying Entropy, Information-Theoretic, Coding, and
Description-Length criteria in Mathematical Modeling will be presented
at a level which presupposes little knowledge about any of these, and
will be motivated using elementary examples from Physics, Coding Theory,
and Finance. A discussion of modelling methods which appear to be
currently `in' and `out' of `favour' and/or common use in the theory
and practice of Mathematical/Statistical/Probabilistic Modeling will be
included (along with some editorial comment), and a new, original
modelling criterion for distributions will be presented. Some
interesting (as yet unsolved) ordinary differential equations which
arise from this new criterion will be discussed.
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