Thinning and information projections

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2644-2648

  Harremoës, Peter ^a   Johnson, Oliver ^b   Kontoyiannis, Ioannis ^c  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES; GAUSSIAN; INFORMATION DIVERGENCE; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOWER BOUNDS; NON-TRIVIAL; POISSON APPROXIMATIONS; RATE OF CONVERGENCE;

CONTROL THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CYBERNETICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION THEORY; POISSON EQUATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 52349083177     PISSN: 21578101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIT.2008.4595471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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