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
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