Statistical Inference Based on Divergence Measures
Published on 12. November 2018
512 pages
978-1-040-20926-4 (ISBN)
Description
The idea of using functionals of Information Theory, such as entropies or divergences, in statistical inference is not new. However, in spite of the fact that divergence statistics have become a very good alternative to the classical likelihood ratio test and the Pearson-type statistic in discrete models, many statisticians remain unaware of this p
Reviews / Votes
"There are a number of measures of divergence between distributions. Describing them properly requires a very mathematically well-written book, which the author here provides ... This book is a fine course text, and is beautifully produced. There are about four hundred references. Recommended."-ISI Short Book Reviews
". . . suitable for a beginning graduate course on information theory based on statistical inference. This book will be a useful and important addition to the resources of practitioners and many others engaged information theory and statistics. Overall, this is an impressive book on information theory based statistical inference."
- Prasanna Sahoo, in Zentralblatt Math, 2008, Vol. 1120
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,91 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-20926-4 (9781040209264)
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Statistical Inference Based on Divergence Measures
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Content
Divergence Measures: Definition and Properties. Entropy as a Measure of Diversity: Sampling Distributions. Goodness of Fit Based on Phi-Divergence Statistics: Simple Null Hypothesis. Optimality of Phi -Divergence Test Statistics in Goodness-of-Fit. Minimum Phi -Divergence Estimators. Goodness-of-Fit based on Phi -Divergence Statistics: Composite Null Hypothesis. Testing Loglinear Models using Phi -Divergence Test Statistics. Phi -Divergence Measures in Contingency Tables. Testing in General Populations. References.
