Entropy of Some Discrete Distributions

Kosto Mitov () and Saralees Nadarajah ()
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Kosto Mitov: Medical University of Pleven
Saralees Nadarajah: University of Manchester

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2023, vol. 25, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: Abstract Cheraghchi [IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 65, 2019, 3999-4009] derived expressions for the entropy for some basic discrete distributions. Not all of the expressions provided were in closed form. In this note, we derive closed form expressions for the entropy for more than ten flexible classes of distributions. The correctness of the expressions is checked numerically.

Keywords: Lerch function; Polylogarithm function; Riemann zeta function; 62E99 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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