Reply to C. Tsallis' "conceptual inadequacy of the Shore and Johnson axioms for wide classes of complex systems"

Steve Presse; Kingshuk Ghosh; Julian Lee; Ken A. Dill

doi:10.3390/e17075043

Reply to C. Tsallis' "conceptual inadequacy of the Shore and Johnson axioms for wide classes of complex systems"

Steve Presse
, Kingshuk Ghosh
, Julian Lee
, Ken A. Dill

Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
University of Denver
Soongsil University

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Abstract

In a recent PRL (2013, 111, 180604), we invoked the Shore and Johnson axioms which demonstrate that the least-biased way to infer probability distributions {p_i} from data is to maximize the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy. We then showed which biases are introduced in models obtained by maximizing nonadditive entropies. A rebuttal of our work appears in entropy (2015, 17, 2853) and argues that the Shore and Johnson axioms are inapplicable to a wide class of complex systems. Here we highlight the errors in this reasoning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5043-5046
Number of pages	4
Journal	Entropy
Volume	17
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/e17075043
State	Published - 2015

Keywords

Nonadditive entropies
Nonextensive statistical mechanics
Shore and Johnson axioms
Strongly correlated random variables

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