On symmetry and the directed divergence in information theory

DOI10.1016/0378-3758(85)90072-2zbMath0601.94003OpenAlexW1981318137MaRDI QIDQ1081584

Prem Nath, Ranjit J. Singh

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-3758(85)90072-2

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrydirected divergencemonotonydegenerate probability distributionsminimum discrimination information functionmutually exclusive events

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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