Dispersion of Categorical Variables and Penalty Functions: Derivation, Estimation, and Comparability

DOI10.2307/2291537zbMath0868.62013OpenAlexW4248391153MaRDI QIDQ3128765

Zvi Gilula, Shelby J. Haberman

Publication date: 19 August 1997

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2291537

zbMATH Keywords

entropypenalty functionsmeasures of associationconcentrationasymptotic properties of estimatescategorical random variablesdispersion measuresmajorization theoryefficient estimation proceduresGoodman-Kruskal measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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