Variable selection in qualitative models via an entropic explanatory power

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 77-94

  Dupuis, Jérome A ^a   Robert, Christian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Additivity property; Entropy; Kullback Leibler distance; Logit model; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290186     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00286-0     Document Type: Article

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