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Quantum mechanical operations are motivated and their formal representation is derived from principles of statistics as well as from interaction processes.

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Hellwig, K.E. General scheme of measurement processes. Int J Theor Phys 34, 1467–1479 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00676256

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