Expressions for the Entropy of Basic Discrete Distributions

DOI10.1109/TIT.2019.2900716MaRDI QIDQ5224049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mahdi Cheraghchi

Publication date 19 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.2019.2900716

zbMATH Keywords

computing logarithmic and log-gamma expectations of distributionsseries expansions and integral representations of entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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• Entropy-based estimation of the birth-death ratio
• Entropy of some discrete distributions
• Properties of Shannon and Rényi entropies of the Poisson distribution as the functions of intensity parameter

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