3 papers
cs.IT2024
Nearest-Neighbours Estimators for Conditional Mutual Information
Jake Witter, Conor Houghton
The conditional mutual information quantifies the conditional dependence of two random variables. It has numerous applications; it forms, for example, part of the definition of tra…
cs.IT2023
Estimating mutual information for spike trains: a bird song example
Jake Witter, Conor Houghton
Zebra finch are a model animal used in the study of audition. They are adept at recognizing zebra finch songs and the neural pathway involved in song recognition is well studied. H…
cs.IT2021
A note on the unbiased estimation of mutual information
Jake Witter, Conor Houghton
Estimators for mutual information are typically biased. However, in the case of the Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator for metric spaces, a type of nearest neighbour estimator, it is po…