Randomness, evenness, and Rényi's index

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1982-1990

  Eliazar, Iddo ^a  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atkinson's index; Entropy maximization and minimization; Evenness; Gini's index; Hirschman's index; Hoover's "Robin Hood" index; Pietra's index; Randomness; R nyi's entropy; Simpson's index; Theil's index

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

ATKINSON'S INDICES; ENTROPY MAXIMIZATION; EVENNESS; GINI'S INDICES; HIRSCHMAN'S INDICES; PIETRA'S INDICES; RANDOMNESS; ROBIN HOOD; SIMPSON'S INDEX; THEIL'S INDICES;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 79953300053     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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