Maximum entropy principle and statistical inference on condensed ordered data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-93

  Menendez M ^a   Morales, D ^b   Pardo, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit tests; Maximum entropy principle; Point estimation; Shannon entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031591242     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00169-1     Document Type: Article

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