A minimally informative likelihood for decision analysis: Illustration and robustness

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 649-665

  Yuan, Ao ^a   Clarke, Bertrand S ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blahut Arimoto algorithm; Information; Rate distortion function; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346994181     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316119     Document Type: Article

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