The exponential statistical manifold: Mean parameters, orthogonality and space transformations

Bernoulli

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 721-760

  Pistone, Giovanni ^a   Rogantin, Maria Piera ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exponential families; Exponential statistical manifolds; Information; Mean parameters; Orlicz spaces; Orthogonality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004635624     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318699     Document Type: Article

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