Generalized Measures of Information, Bayes' Likelihood Ratio and Jaynes' Formalism
Lionel March, Michael Batty · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design · 1975
This paper relates generalized measures of information to expected likelihood functions (ELFs) derived from Bayes' equation. It then demonstrates that Jaynes' formalism may be extended to formulate a class of minimally-prejudiced models of which those derived from Shannon's measure are but a limiting and special case. The rôle of probable inference and of information-minimizing models in design is commented on.