Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods Garching, Germany 1998

Edwin Thompson Jaynes.- A Tribute to Edwin T. Jaynes.- The Near-Irrelevance of Sampling Frequency Distributions.- Outlier Tolerant Parameter Estimation.- Universality, Prior Information and Maximum Entropy in Foams.- Texture Reconstruction in Noisy Images.- Bayesian 3D X-Ray Reconstruction from Incomplete Noisy Data.- A Bayesian Reflection on Surfaces.- Quantum Entropy Regularization.- Bayesian Reconstruction of Electron Energy Distributions from Emission Line Intensities.- Depth Profile Reconstruction from Rutherford Backscattering Data.- Bayesian Image Segmentation Using A Dynamic Pyramidal Structure.- Adaptive Image Reconstruction with Predictive Models.- Are We Cruising a Hypothesis Space?.- Fiducial Inference.- Posterior Moments of the Cauchy Distribution.- Bayesian Reasoning Versus Conventional Statistics in High Energy Physics.- Model Comparison in Plasma Energy Confinement Scaling.- Straight Lines.- Bayesian Analysis with Application to the Timing Residuals of a Pulsar.- Bayesian Labeling of Remote Sensing Image Content.- Some Recent Developments in Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics.- Convergent Bayesian Formulations of Blind Source Separation and Electromagnetic Source Estimation.- A Maximum Entropy Approach for Estimating Nonlinear Dynamic Models.- Probability and Entropy in Quantum Theory.- Unreal Probabilities: Partial Truth with Clifford Numbers.- Yet Another Derivation of the Principle of Maximum Entropy.- Efficient Estimation of Missing Information in Multivalued Singly Connected Networks Using Maximum Entropy.- Overview and Bayesian Perspective of Phase Unwrapping.- Operation of the Bayes Inference Engine.- The Prior-Predictive Value.- An Unsupervised Clustering Method by Entropy Minimization.- Applications of the Maximum Entropy Method in Crystallography.- Trace Metal Detection in Natural Water.- Oscillator Stability Analysis Using a Bayesian Approach.- List of Participants.