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

DOI10.1080/02664763.2014.899325MaRDI QIDQ2953264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-sample testdiscrete distributionsentropymutual informationnonparametric testssports statisticstwo-sample test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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