Extensions of the parametric families of divergences used in statistical inference

Kybernetika

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-112

  Kůs, Václav ^a   Morales, Domingo ^b   Vajda, Igor ^c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Divergences; Families of f divergences; Metric divergences

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449167136     PISSN: 00235954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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