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Of course there is. It's an improper prior (doesn't sum up to one), see link above. Theoretically the Gaussian is only maximum entropy given a mean and stddev. An infinite uniform is maxent without any knowledge of mean and stddev.

In practice though you can use a wide Gaussian if it is more mathematically convenient and get about the same results.




The entropy of any improper prior diverges. There is no point in arguing over which one maximizes entropy; they all do, vacuously. Max entropy is not useful for discriminating amongst probability distributions unless you require them to actually be probability distributions.




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