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February 2015 Estimating the Renyi entropy of several exponential populations
Suchandan Kayal, Somesh Kumar, P. Vellaisamy
Braz. J. Probab. Stat. 29(1): 94-111 (February 2015). DOI: 10.1214/13-BJPS230

Abstract

Suppose independent random samples are drawn from $k$ shifted exponential populations with a common location but unequal scale parameters. The problem of estimating the Renyi entropy is considered. The uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE) is derived. Sufficient conditions for improvement over affine and scale equivariant estimators are obtained. As a consequence, improved estimators over the UMVUE and the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) are obtained. Further, for the case $k=1$, an estimator that dominates the best affine equivariant estimator is derived. Cases when the location parameter is constrained are also investigated in detail.

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Suchandan Kayal. Somesh Kumar. P. Vellaisamy. "Estimating the Renyi entropy of several exponential populations." Braz. J. Probab. Stat. 29 (1) 94 - 111, February 2015. https://doi.org/10.1214/13-BJPS230

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Published: February 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 30 October 2014

zbMATH: 1329.94028
MathSciNet: MR3299109
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/13-BJPS230

Keywords: Entropy estimation , Equivariance , improved estimators , MLE , shifted exponential , UMVUE

Rights: Copyright © 2015 Brazilian Statistical Association

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