Maximum entropy may refer to:

• Entropy, a scientific concept as well as a measurable physical property that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty.

Physics

• Maximum entropy thermodynamics
• Maximum entropy spectral estimation

Mathematics and statistics

• Principle of maximum entropy
• Maximum entropy probability distribution
• Maximum entropy classifier, in regression analysis

See also

• Second law of thermodynamics, establishes the concept of entropy as a physical property of a thermodynamic system