Computing the maximum-entropy extension of given discrete probability distributions

DOI10.1016/0167-9473(89)90046-7zbMath0726.62012OpenAlexW1969437862MaRDI QIDQ804113

Francesco Mario Malvestuto

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-9473(89)90046-7

zbMATH Keywords

decompositionreductionintersection graphmaximum-entropy principleIPFP

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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