Exact test of independence using mutual information

Entropy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2839-2849

  Pethel, Shawn D ^a   Hahs, Daniel W ^b  

^a US Army Research Development and Engineering Command   (United States)

^b Torch Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutual information; Significance test; Surrogate data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901427408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e16052839     Document Type: Article

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