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dc.contributor.author | Botha, Tanita![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Ferreira, Johannes Theodorus![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Bekker, Andriette, 1958-![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-20T06:45:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-20T06:45:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-25 | |
dc.description.abstract | Entropy is a functional of probability and is a measurement of information contained in a system; however, the practical problem of estimating entropy in applied settings remains a challenging and relevant problem. The Dirichlet prior is a popular choice in the Bayesian framework for estimation of entropy when considering a multinomial likelihood. In this work, previously unconsidered Dirichlet type priors are introduced and studied. These priors include a class of Dirichlet generators as well as a noncentral Dirichlet construction, and in both cases includes the usual Dirichlet as a special case. These considerations allow for flexible behaviour and can account for negative and positive correlation. Resultant estimators for a particular functional, the power sum, under these priors and assuming squared error loss, are derived and represented in terms of the product moments of the posterior. This representation facilitates closed-form estimators for the Tsallis entropy, and thus expedite computations of this generalised Shannon form. Select cases of these proposed priors are considered to investigate the impact and effect on the estimation of Tsallis entropy subject to different parameter scenarios. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Statistics | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | am2022 | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The National Research Foundation of South Africa as well as the Research Development Programme at the University of Pretoria. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Botha, T.; Ferreira, J.; Bekker, A. Alternative Dirichlet Priors for Estimating Entropy via a Power Sum Functional. Mathematics 2021, 9, 1493. https://DOI.org/10.3390/math9131493. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2227-7390 | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.3390/math9131493 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85592 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. | en_US |
dc.subject | Generator | en_US |
dc.subject | Multinomial | en_US |
dc.subject | Noncentral | en_US |
dc.subject | Poisson | en_US |
dc.subject | Power sum | en_US |
dc.subject | Tsallis | en_US |
dc.title | Alternative dirichlet priors for estimating entropy via a power sum functional | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |