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Minimum Relative Entropy Inference for Normal and Monte Carlo Distributions

Machine Learning 2020-07-14 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We represent affine sub-manifolds of exponential family distributions as minimum relative entropy sub-manifolds. With such representation we derive analytical formulas for the inference from partial information on expectations and covariances of multivariate normal distributions; and we improve the numerical implementation via Monte Carlo simulations for the inference from partial information of generalized expectation type.

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@article{arxiv.2007.06461,
  title  = {Minimum Relative Entropy Inference for Normal and Monte Carlo Distributions},
  author = {Marcello Colasante and Attilio Meucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.06461},
  year   = {2020}
}
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