The application of the principle of minimum cross-entropy to the characterization of the exponential-type probability distributions
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Publication:1086929
DOI10.1007/BF02482532zbMath0609.62017MaRDI QIDQ1086929
Publication date: 1986
Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
gamma; characterizations; normal distribution; exponential family; prior distributions; Student distribution; minimum discrimination information; Kullback's estimation criterion; negative exponential; principle of minimum cross-entropy
62E10: Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions
94A17: Measures of information, entropy
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