An Estimate of Mutual Information that Permits Closed-Form Optimisation
We introduce a new estimate of mutual information between a dataset and a target variable that can be maximised analytically and has broad applicability in the field of machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. This estimate has previously been employed implicitly as an approximation to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/5/1690 |