Finding the Maximizers of the Information Divergence from an Exponential Family

The subject of this thesis is the maximization of the information divergence from an exponential family on a finite set, a problem first formulated by Nihat Ay. A special case is the maximization of the mutual information or the multiinformation between different parts of a composite system. My...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rauh, Johannes
Other Authors: Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2011
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-77355
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-77355
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