Proper noun
the Gibbs algorithm
(statistical mechanics) A criterion for choosing a probability distribution for the statistical ensemble of microstates of a thermodynamic system by minimizing the average log probability
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{\displaystyle \langle \ln p_{i}\rangle =\sum _{i}p_{i}\ln p_{i}\,}
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