• DocumentCode
    3273767
  • Title

    Divergence minimization under prior inequality constraints

  • Author

    Csiszár, I. ; Tusnády, G. ; Ispány, M. ; Verdes, E. ; Michaletzky, Gy ; Rudas, T.

  • Author_Institution
    A. Renyi Inst., Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Budapest, Hungary
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    21
  • Abstract
    Motivated by problems in robust statistics we first give a simple proof of the following: Given a probability measure P and positive measures μ<ν, the γ-divergence from P of probability measures Q satisfying μ⩽Q or μ⩽Q⩽ν is minimized by an explicitly determined Q* not depending on (the convex function) γ. Next we address γ-divergence minimization under the above inequality constraint and additional moment constraints
  • Keywords
    constraint theory; information theory; minimisation; probability; divergence minimization; information measures; moment constraints; positive measures; prior inequality constraints; probability measure; robust statistics; Contamination; Density measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Maximum likelihood estimation; Pollution measurement; Probability; Q measurement; Robustness; Statistics; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7123-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2001.935884
  • Filename
    935884