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The binomial and the Poisson distributions are shown to be maximum entropy distributions of suitably defined sets. Poisson's law is considered as a case of entropy maximization, and also convergence in information divergence is established
Published in:
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:47
,
Issue:
5
)
Date of Publication: Jul 2001
- Page(s):
- 2039 - 2041
- ISSN :
- 0018-9448
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 6980684
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/18.930936
- Date of Current Version :
- 07 August 2002
- Issue Date :
- Jul 2001
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- IEEE Information Theory Society
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