Entropy and Effective Support Size
Notion of Effective size of support (Ess) of a random variable is introduced. A smallset of natural requirements that a measure of Ess should satisfy is presented. The measure withprescribed properties is in a direct (exp-) relationship to the family of R ÃŒÂnyi’s α-entropies which eincludes...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2006-08-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/8/3/169/ |