Some information theoretic ideas useful in statistical inference

被引:5
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作者
Papaioannou, Takis [1 ]
Ferentinos, Kosmas
Tsairidis, Charalampos
机构
[1] Univ Piraeus, Dept Stat & Insurance Sci, Piraeus, Greece
[2] Univ Ioannina, Dept Math, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
[3] Democritus Univ Thrace, Dept Social Adm, Komotini 69100, Greece
关键词
information generating function; information optimum estimation; information content; acid test properties; quantal random censoring; Koziol-Green model; truncated data; characterizations of Fisher information;
D O I
10.1007/s11009-007-9017-7
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
In this paper we discuss four information theoretic ideas and present their implications to statistical inference: (1) Fisher information and divergence generating functions, (2) information optimum unbiased estimators, (3) information content of various statistics, (4) characterizations based on Fisher information.
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页码:307 / 323
页数:17
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