Binomial and Poisson distributions as maximum entropy distributions

DOI10.1109/18.930936MaRDI QIDQ4544641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Peter Harremoës

Publication date 4 August 2002

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/592db85a665b7f9cf40eaf580147289754303576

zbMATH Keywords

entropyinformation divergencegeneralized Poisson distributiongeneralized binomial distributionPoisson's law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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