• DocumentCode
    1425004
  • Title

    Information and entropy of continuous random variables

  • Author

    Fabián, Zdenek

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Comput. Sci., Czech Acad. of Sci., Prague, Czech Republic
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1080
  • Lastpage
    1084
  • Abstract
    The mean value of the square of a generalized score function is shown to be interpretable as information associated with a continuous random variable. This information is in particular cases equal to the Fisher information of the corresponding distribution
  • Keywords
    entropy; information theory; random processes; Fisher information; continuous random variables; entropy; information theory; Computer science; Content addressable storage; Density measurement; Entropy; Parametric statistics; Random variables;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.568724
  • Filename
    568724
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1425004