Information theory and superefficiency

DOI10.1214/aos/1024691358zbMath0932.62005OpenAlexW2006833219MaRDI QIDQ1807151

Andrew R. Barron, Nicolas W. Hengartner

Publication date: 9 November 1999

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1024691358

zbMATH Keywords

data compressionsuperefficiencyKullback-Leibler loss

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Bounds on codes (94B65) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Source coding (94A29)

Related Items

Superefficiency from the vantage point of computability, Information-theoretic determination of minimax rates of convergence

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