Dual differential geometry associated with the Kullbaek-Leibler information on the Gaussian distributions and its 2-parameter deformations

SUT Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-137

  Yoshizawa, Shintaro ^a   Tanabe, Kunio ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

( , ) divergence; Dual affine connections; Dunford taylor integral; Kullback leibler information; Legendre transformation; Matrix convex function; Matrix differential

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038257744     PISSN: 09165746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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