Hello. The "maximum entropy formalism" is a general method of choosing the probability distribution that has maximum entropy, subject to constraints on its moments. Does anyone have code for performing this (for discrete and for continuous distributions)? Thanks. Bill Shipley Departement de biologie Universite de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke (Quebec) CANADA J1K 2R9 Bill.Shipley at USherbrooke.ca http://callisto.si.usherb.ca:8080/bshipley/