Bayesian estimation of shannon entropy

DOI10.1080/03610929708831906MaRDI QIDQ4337306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lin Yuan, H. K. Kesavan

Publication date 19 May 1997

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929708831906

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian estimateDirichlet priorentropyfrequency data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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