Handouts

• Lecture Notes
  • Chapter 1: Some Probabilistic Aspects of Entropy (9/15/04)

   

• ETH 2001 Lectures
  • Sections 7, 8 and 9

   

• Statistical Inference and Statistical Mechanics, from slides for plenary talks in Hong Kong and China, October, 2004

• Notes from SK Mitter dated 9/28/04

• Sanov Property, Generalized I-Projection and A Conditional Limit Theorem, by I. Csiszar, The Annals of Probability, Vol. 12, No. 3, 768-793 (1984).

• I-Divergence Geometry of Probability Distributions and Minimization Problems, by I. Csiszar, The Annals of Probability, Vol. 3, No. 1, 146-158 (1975).

• Notes from SK Mitter dated 10/19/04: Ergodic Theory

• Convergence of Locally and Globally Interacting Markov Chains, by H. Follmer and U. Horst, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 96 (2001) 99-121.

• Lecture Notes
  • Specifications of Random Fields (11/30/04)
  • Dobrushin's Weak Dependence Condition (11/30/04)

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