Survival exponential entropies

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1239-1246

  Zografos, Konstantinos ^a   Nadarajah, Saralees ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential entroppy; Multivariate survival function; Shannon Entropy

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPONENTIAL ENTROPY; MULTIVARIATE SURVIVAL FUNCTION; SHANNON ENTROPY;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 15044343359     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2004.842772     Document Type: Article

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