A closed-form expression for the Sharma-Mittal entropy of exponential families
Abstract
The Sharma-Mittal entropies generalize the celebrated Shannon, Rényi and Tsallis entropies. We report a closed-form formula for the Sharma-Mittal entropies and relative entropies for arbitrary exponential family distributions. We explicitly instantiate the formula for the case of the multivariate Gaussian distributions and discuss its estimation.
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Journal of Physics A Mathematical General
- Pub Date:
- January 2012
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- arXiv:
- arXiv:1112.4221
- Bibcode:
- 2012JPhA...45c2003N
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- Computer Science - Information Theory
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 3 figures