INFORMATION AND ENTROPY OF CONTINUOUS RANDOM-VARIABLES

Authors
FABIAN Z
Citation
Z. Fabian, INFORMATION AND ENTROPY OF CONTINUOUS RANDOM-VARIABLES, IEEE transactions on information theory, 43(3), 1997, pp. 1080-1084
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on information theory → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189448
Volume
43
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1080 - 1084
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9448(1997)43:3<1080:IAEOCR>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The mean value of the square of a generalized score function is shown to be interpretable as information associated with a continuous random variable. This information is in particular cases equal to the Fisher information of the corresponding distribution.