Comment on "critique of multinomial coefficient method for evaluating Tsallis and Rnyi entropies" by A.S. Parvan

Thomas Oikonomou

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2010.11.003

Comment on "critique of multinomial coefficient method for evaluating Tsallis and Rnyi entropies" by A.S. Parvan

Thomas Oikonomou

Department of Physics

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Abstract

Parvan [A.S. Parvan, Critique of multinomial coefficients method for evaluating Tsallis and Rnyi entropies, Physica A 389 (2010) 5645] has recently presented some calculations in order to demonstrate the incorrectness of the results obtained from the generalized multinomial coefficients (GMC) presented in Oikonomou (2007) [1]. According to Parvan, the aforementioned approach of studying maximum entropy probability distributions is erroneous. In this comment I demonstrate that Parvan's arguments do not hold true and that the obtained results from GMC do not present either mathematical or physical discrepancies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	781-784
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	390
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2010.11.003
Publication status	Published - Mar 1 2011

Keywords

Equilibrium statistical mechanics
Rnyi statistics
Tsallis statistics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Statistics and Probability
Condensed Matter Physics

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Oikonomou, T. (2011). Comment on "critique of multinomial coefficient method for evaluating Tsallis and Rnyi entropies" by A.S. Parvan. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 390(5), 781-784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2010.11.003

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