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Free Exponential Families as Kernel Families

Probability 2010-06-08 v4 Operator Algebras Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Free exponential families have been previously introduced as a special case of the q-exponential family. We show that free exponential families arise also from a procedure analogous to the definition of exponential families by using the Cauchy-Stieltjes kernel instead of the exponential kernel. We use this approach to re-derive several known results and to study further similarities with exponential families and reproductive exponential models.

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@article{arxiv.math/0601273,
  title  = {Free Exponential Families as Kernel Families},
  author = {Wlodzimierz Bryc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601273},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Major revision; same theorems in different layout. 12 pages

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