The Basics of Information Geometry
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2015-06-23 v1
Abstract
To what extent can we distinguish one probability distribution from another? Are there quantitative measures of distinguishability? The goal of this tutorial is to approach such questions by introducing the notion of the "distance" between two probability distributions and exploring some basic ideas of such an "information geometry".
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@article{arxiv.1412.5633,
title = {The Basics of Information Geometry},
author = {Ariel Caticha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5633},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages. Invited tutorial presented at MaxEnt 2014, the 34th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (September 21--26, 2014, Amboise, France)