Measures of statistical dispersion based on Shannon and Fisher information concepts

DOI10.1016/j.ins.2013.02.023zbMath1284.62080OpenAlexW1968317750MaRDI QIDQ2446456

Lubomir Kostal, Ondrej Pokora, Petr Lansky

Publication date: 16 April 2014

Published in: Information Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2013.02.023

zbMATH Keywords

entropyFisher informationstatistical dispersionpositive random variable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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