Kullback-Leibler divergence measure for multivariate skew-normal distributions

DOI10.3390/e14091606zbMath1306.62040OpenAlexW1969288392MaRDI QIDQ406157

Javier E. Contreras-Reyes, Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle

Publication date: 8 September 2014

Published in: Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/e14091606

zbMATH Keywords

earthquakesKullback-Leibler divergencecross-entropyskew-normalnonparametric clusteringJeffreys divergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Geostatistics (86A32) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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