Re: [Fis] MAXENT applied to ecology

2014-10-02 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJ&hl=en -Original Message- From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Robert E. Ulanowicz Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 6:25 PM To: John Collier Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] MAXENT applied to ecology De

Re: [Fis] MAXENT applied to ecology

2014-09-27 Thread Robert E. Ulanowicz
Dear John, I came across the article and wrote to John Harte. My email to him and his kind response are appended below. I brief, I believe John is on the correct pathway, and it is one that I have been treading for some 35 years now. I think, however, that one cannot simply apply statistical entr

[Fis] MAXENT applied to ecology

2014-09-27 Thread John Collier
List, I am curious what people think of this. http://www.wired.com/2014/09/information-theory-hold-key-quantifying-nature/ >From the article: MaxEnt is based on principles of simplicity and consistency, but it has additional assumptions baked into it, starting with the fact that researchers m