A mutual information-based k-sample test for discrete distributions

DOI10.1080/02664763.2014.899325zbMATH Open1352.62063OpenAlexW2081204532MaRDI QIDQ2953264FDOQ2953264

Authors: Robert Drake, Apratim Guha 

Publication date: 4 January 2017

Published in: Journal of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2014.899325

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zbMATH Keywords

entropymutual informationdiscrete distributionstwo-sample testnonparametric tests\(k\)-sample testsports statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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