New information measures for the generalized normal distribution

Information (Switzerland)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-27

  Kitsos, Christos P ^a   Toulias, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Entropy power; Information measures; Kotz type distribution; Kullback Leibler information

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY;

GENERALIZED ENTROPIES; GENERALIZED INFORMATION MEASURES; GENERALIZED NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION MEASURES; KULLBACK-LEIBLER INFORMATION; MEASURES OF INFORMATION; THREE PARAMETERS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84856532988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info1010013     Document Type: Article

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