Large deviations of divergence measures on partitions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 1-16

  Beirlant, Jan ^a   Devroye, Luc ^b   Györfi, László ^c   Vajda, Igor ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

2 divergence; 62G10; Bahadur exact slope; Goodness of fit; I divergence; Large deviations; Partitions; Total variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008239705     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00202-0     Document Type: Article

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