Maximum entropy principle and statistical inference on condensed ordered data

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(96)00169-1zbMath0899.62031MaRDI QIDQ1380634

M. Luisa Menendez, Domingo Morales, Leandro Pardo

Publication date: 8 March 1998

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00169-1

zbMATH Keywords

maximum entropy; Shannon entropy; sample quantiles; asymptotic chi-square distribution; goodness-of-fit test statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62F10: Point estimation

62B10: Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics

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