When do finite sample effects significantly affect entropy estimates?

T. Wit ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 1999, vol. 11, issue 3, 513-516

Abstract: An expression is proposed for determining the error made by neglecting finite sample effects in entropy estimates. It is based on the Ansatz that the ranked distribution of probabilities tends to follow a Zipf scaling. Copyright Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 1999

Keywords: PACS. 02.50.-r Probability theory; stochastic processes; and statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/s100510050963

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