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Computing the Kullback-Leibler Divergence between two Weibull Distributions

Information Theory 2013-10-15 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We derive a closed form solution for the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two Weibull distributions. These notes are meant as reference material and intended to provide a guided tour towards a result that is often mentioned but seldom made explicit in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1310.3713,
  title  = {Computing the Kullback-Leibler Divergence between two Weibull Distributions},
  author = {Christian Bauckhage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3713},
  year   = {2013}
}
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