A NEW DIRECTED DIVERGENCE MEASURE AND ITS CHARACTERIZATION∗

DOI10.1080/03081079008935097zbMath0703.94003MaRDI QIDQ3483213

Jian-hua Lin, S. K. M. Wong

Publication date: 1990

Published in: International Journal of General Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079008935097

zbMATH Keywords

entropy; finiteness; semiboundedness; probability distributions; divergence measure; variational distance; nonnegativity; distance measures; Shannon entropy function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

94A17: Measures of information, entropy

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