The Asymptotic Loss of Information for Grouped Data

We study the loss of information (measured in terms of the Kullback- Leibler distance) caused by observing "grouped" data (observing only a discretized version of a continuous random variable). We analyse the asymptotical behaviour of the loss of information as the partition becomes finer....

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Main Authors: Felsenstein, Klaus, Pötzelberger, Klaus
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 1995
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Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/1432/1/document.pdf