Information Theoretic and Entropy Methods: An Overview

DOI10.1080/07474930801959685zbMath1482.62024MaRDI QIDQ3518450

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Amos Golan

Publication date: 8 August 2008

Published in: Econometric Reviews (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474930801959685

zbMATH Keywords

entropy; information; information theory; information and entropy econometrics; information-theoretic estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

94A17: Measures of information, entropy

62B10: Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics

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