Binomial and Poisson distributions as maximum entropy distributions
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Publication:4544641
DOI10.1109/18.930936zbMath0999.94012WikidataQ57380832 ScholiaQ57380832MaRDI QIDQ4544641
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
entropy; information divergence; generalized Poisson distribution; generalized binomial distribution; Poisson's law
62E10: Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions
94A17: Measures of information, entropy
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