How Maxent works (simply)

[Roohallah Mirzaei]

Hi every body,

 

Anyone can simply explain me how maxent works?

Thanks for your help.

[Francisco Rodriguez Sanchez]

Hi,

There are many resources on the web. This paper provides an "ecologist-friendly" explanation of Maxent (check also the Suppl Mat): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00725.x/full

And if you want to know what's going on in terms of algorithms, this tutorial does all the calculations involved in Maxent, step by step in Excel: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/8d287b15-b463-44e8-a35f-95ffbbff8459/

Cheers

Paco

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http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/lzhang10/maxent.html

A MaxEnt Model v3.3.3e Tutorial (ArcGIS v10)


 Cheers

[David Galbraith]

I think of it as a modeling tool that tries to form its picture based on known information. It seems like it is adaptable for a variety of questions, but not always correctly understood by those who use it. If entropy is maximized by forced constraints, then assumptions become obsolete or more important. (?)

Dave

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