Asymptotic normality for plug-in estimators of diversity indices on countable alphabets

DOI10.1080/10485252.2018.1482294MaRDI QIDQ5375957zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Grabchak, Zhiyi Zhang

Publication date 17 September 2018

Published in Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/10485252.2018.1482294

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalitydiversity indicesentropy estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Density estimation (62G07)

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