DocumentCode
1225421
Title
On asymptotic properties of information-theoretic divergences
Author
Pardo, María Del Carmen ; Vajda, Igor
Author_Institution
Dept. of Stat. & O. R., Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain
Volume
49
Issue
7
fYear
2003
fDate
7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1860
Lastpage
1867
Abstract
Mutual asymptotic equivalence is established within three classes of information-theoretic divergences of discrete probability distributions, namely, f-divergences of Csiszar, f-divergences of Bregman, and f-divergences of Burbea-Rao. These equivalences are used to find asymptotic distributions of the corresponding divergence statistics for testing the goodness of fit when the hypothetic distribution is uniform. All results are based on standard expansion techniques and on a new relation between the Bregman and Burbea-Rao divergences formulated in Lemma 2 of the paper.
Keywords
information theory; probability; Bregman f-divergences; Burbea-Rao f-divergences; Csiszdr f-divergences; asymptotic properties; discrete probability distributions; information-theoretic divergences; mutual asymptotic equivalence; Bayesian methods; Probability;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9448
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIT.2003.813509
Filename
1207389
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