Tuesday,
26 October 2004
Statistical Inference
in Quantum Mechanics
Jos Uffink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning
Abstract: Starting from the likelihood
principle and Fisher's notion of intrinsic accuracy in the inference
of parameters that label statistical hypotheses, one obtains a natural
choice of distance between probability measures. This so-called
"statistical distance" thus emerges in a completely classical context
but has nice applications in quantum mechanics, in particular for
the formulation of the uncertainty relations.
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