A note on how Renyi entropy can create a spectrum of probabilistic merging operators

DOI10.14736/kyb-2019-4-0605zbMath1474.94057OpenAlexW2986188908MaRDI QIDQ5218990

Martin Adamčík

Publication date: 6 March 2020

Published in: Kybernetika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.14736/kyb-2019-4-0605

zbMATH Keywords

information geometryprobabilistic mergingRényi entropyKullbac-Leibler divergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22)

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