On a functional defined by means of Kullback-Leibler measure and its statistical applications

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 671-676

  Shamilov, Aladdin ^a   Kantar, Yeliz Mert ^a   Usta, Ilhan ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Entropy; Kullback Leibler measure; Model selection criteria; Weibull distribution; Wind speed data

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER;

KULLBACK-LEIBLER MEASURE; MODEL-SELECTION CRITERIA; WIND SPEED DATA;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 33745502856     PISSN: 11092769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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