Computing the maximum-entropy extension of given discrete probability distributions

DOI10.1016/0167-9473(89)90046-7zbMATH Open0726.62012OpenAlexW1969437862MaRDI QIDQ804113FDOQ804113

Authors: Francesco M. Malvestuto 

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-9473(89)90046-7

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zbMATH Keywords

decompositionintersection graphreductionmaximum-entropy principleIPFP

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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