Non-uniqueness of non-extensive entropy under Rényi's recipe

Soenke Hoffmann ()
Additional contact information
Soenke Hoffmann: Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

No 8011, FEMM Working Papers from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management

Abstract: In this note I show that Tsallis entropy (Tsallis, 1988) is not unique in the class of non-additive, selfweighted and quasilinear means. A characterization is given which disproves a result in Dukkipati et al. (2005a,b) and Dukkipati et al. (2006).

Keywords: Non-extensive entropy; Non-additivity; Quasilinear means 1 I (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2008-04
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.fww.ovgu.de/fww_media/femm/femm_2008/2008_11.pdf First version, 2008 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mag:wpaper:08011

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in FEMM Working Papers from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by IT Administrators at FWW ().