A novel approach to approximate Kullback-Leibler distance rate for hidden Markov models

Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 869-873

  Liang, Hongkang ^a   Anderson Sprecher, Richard C ^a   Kubichek, Robert F ^a   Talwar, Gaurav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KULLBACK LEIBLER DISTANCE RATE (KLDR); OBSERVATION DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVATION-TRANSITION PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 33847689878     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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