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Unbiased Estimators for Entropy and Class Number

Statistics Theory 2014-10-21 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We introduce unbiased estimators for the Shannon entropy and the class number, in the situation that we are able to take sequences of independent samples of arbitrary length.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5002,
  title  = {Unbiased Estimators for Entropy and Class Number},
  author = {Stephen Montgomery-Smith and T. Schürmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5002},
  year   = {2014}
}

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http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/preprints/class-novel.html

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