Title :
Consistency of an estimate of tree-dependent probability distributions (Corresp.)
Author :
Chow, Chi-Yin ; Wagner, Thomas
fDate :
5/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We demonstrate in this correspondence that the procedure introduced by Chow and Liu for estimating tree-dependent probability distributions is consistent.
Keywords :
Estimation; Probability functions; Error probability; Frequency estimation; Hilbert space; Information theory; Matrices; Notice of Violation; Probability distribution; Statistics; Time measurement; Time series analysis;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.1973.1055013