General Entropies

Jan Naudts ()
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Jan Naudts: University of Antwerp, Physics Department

Chapter Chapter 11 in Generalised Thermostatistics, 2011, pp 165-178 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It is shown that the probability distributions of a generalised exponential family still satisfy a maximum entropy principle and a variational principle. A definition is given of a deformed Fisher information and a version of the Cramer-Rao theorem is proved.

Keywords: Variational Principle; General Entropy; Fisher Information; Relative Entropy; Exponential Family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-355-8_11

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