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Computing the Kullback-Leibler Divergence between two Generalized Gamma Distributions

Information Theory 2014-01-28 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We derive a closed form solution for the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two generalized gamma distributions. These notes are meant as a reference and provide a guided tour towards a result of practical interest that is rarely explicated in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1401.6853,
  title  = {Computing the Kullback-Leibler Divergence between two Generalized Gamma Distributions},
  author = {Christian Bauckhage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6853},
  year   = {2014}
}
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