Statistical aspects of divergence measures
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Statistical aspects of divergence measures
zbMATH Open document ID: 0634.62004
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(87)90063-2
author: Inder J. Taneja
published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: It is shown that some generalized divergence measures for experiments are isotonic functions with respect to the Blackwell order structure. Moreover, it is shown that Fisher's information can be obtained by derivating the divergence measures considered in the paper.
reviewed by: Helmut Strasser
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62B10
zbMATH DE Number: 4032781
zbMATH Keywords: Cramér-Rao inequality
zbMATH Keywords: convexity
zbMATH Keywords: monotonicity
zbMATH Keywords: generalized divergence measures
zbMATH Keywords: isotonic functions
zbMATH Keywords: Blackwell order structure
zbMATH Keywords: Fisher's information
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0378-3758(87)90063-2
OpenAlex ID: W1978969504
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4032781