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A NOTE ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SUFFICIENCY IN THERMODYNAMICS
Author(s) -
Chakrabarti C. G.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1973.tb00121.x
Subject(s) - thermodynamics , mandelbrot set , distribution (mathematics) , statistical physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , econometrics , physics , mathematical analysis , fractal
In this note the significance of sufficiency in the study of statistical thermodyna, mics has been investigated. Firstly, Mandelbrot's “Criteria of sufficiency” for the determination of temperature of a heat‐reservoir and the corresponding canonical distribution for thermal equilibrium of a system immersed in the heat‐reservoir have been studied from an inf ormation‐theoretic approach. Secondly, the fluctuation of temperature has been obtained from the notion of sufficiency.