Estimation of the information by an adaptive partitioning of the observation space

被引:343
作者
Darbellay, GA [1 ]
Vajda, I [1 ]
机构
[1] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Informat Theory & Automat, CR-18208 Prague, Czech Republic
关键词
data-dependent partitions; maximum-likelihood estimation; mutual information; nonparametric estimation;
D O I
10.1109/18.761290
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
We demonstrate that it is possible to approximate the mutual information arbitrarily closely in probability by calculating relative frequencies on appropriate partitions and achieving conditional independence on the rectangles of which the partitions are made. Empirical results, including a comparison with maximum-likelihood estimators, are presented.
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页码:1315 / 1321
页数:7
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