A family of measures of uncertainty involving utilities: Definition, properties, applications and statistical inferences

DOI10.1007/BF02614085zbMath0697.62004OpenAlexW2060685049MaRDI QIDQ911178

R. Perez, María Ángeles Gil Álvarez, Pedro Gil

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/176224

zbMATH Keywords

entropyutilitiesasymptotic distributionKullback-Leibler information measurelarge sample statistical inferencemeasure of uncertaintynon-additive directed divergences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of statistical experiments (62B15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Foundations of probability theory (60A99) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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