Generalised exponential families and associated entropy functions

Entropy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 131-149

  Naudts, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bregman divergence; Escort probability; Generalised entropy; Generalised exponential family; Generalised Fisher information; Maximum entropy principle; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749111523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/entropy-e10030131     Document Type: Article

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