Maximum entropy distributions with quantile information

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2020.07.052MaRDI QIDQ2029327zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amirsaman H. Bajgiran, Mahsa Mardikoraem, Ehsan S. Soofi

Publication date 3 June 2021

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7414396

zbMATH Keywords

decision analysisinformation valuemaximum entropy priornewsvendorsurvey of professional forecasters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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