Statistical Analysis of Distance Estimators with Density Differences and Density Ratios

Estimating a discrepancy between two probability distributions from samples is an important task in statistics and machine learning. There are mainly two classes of discrepancy measures: distance measures based on the density difference, such as the Lp-distances, and divergence measures based on the...

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Main Authors: Takafumi Kanamori, Masashi Sugiyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-02-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/2/921