Large sample behavior of entropy measures when parameters are estimated

DOI10.1080/03610929708831929MaRDI QIDQ4337330zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel Salicrú, Leandro Pardo, Domingo Morales, M. Luisa Menendez

Publication date 14 October 1998

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929708831929

zbMATH Keywords

CAN estimatorsentropy measuresrandom samplingstratified random sampling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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