Discrete approximations to the Csiszár, Renyi, and Fisher measures of information

DOI10.2307/3315194zbMath0624.62008OpenAlexW2067976103MaRDI QIDQ3026034

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Publication date: 1986

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315194

zbMATH Keywords

discretizationFisher informationKullback-Leibler informationRenyi informationdiscrete approximationsphi-divergenceloss of informationcontinuous dataNumerical resultsCsiszar informationFisher measures of informationgrouping of the data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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