The relative information generating function
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The relative information generating function
zbMATH Open document ID: 0586.94007
DOI: 10.1016/0020-0255(85)90053-2
published in: Information Sciences
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors introduce the relative information generating function. The function assumes simple forms for the binomial and the Poisson distributions. Also, the derivatives of this function give well known statistical indices such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two probability distributions and Watanabe's measure of interdependence. Also some new information indices such as the standard deviation of the variation of information are suggested.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 94A17
zbMATH DE Number: 3941417
zbMATH Keywords: divergence
zbMATH Keywords: probability distributions
zbMATH Keywords: interdependence
zbMATH Keywords: information indices
zbMATH Keywords: standard deviation of the variation of information
author: Silviu Guiasu
author: Corina Reischer
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0020-0255(85)90053-2
OpenAlex ID: W2048606200
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3941417