Maximum Likelihood Set for Estimating a Probability Mass Function

DOI10.1162/0899766053723078MaRDI QIDQ3025068zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bruno Jedynak, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Publication date 4 July 2005

Published in Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1162/0899766053723078

zbMATH Keywords

maximum entropy estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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