Informative geometry of probability spaces

zbMath0604.62006MaRDI QIDQ1083139

Jacob Burbea

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Rao distancecurvatureinformation metricparameter spaceclosed form expressionsmultivariate normalgeodesic distanceFisher matrixHilbert space embeddingmeasure of dissimilarityinformative geometrylocal information contentunivariate and multivariate distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Information theory (general) (94A15) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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