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Does Dirichlet Prior Smoothing Solve the Shannon Entropy Estimation Problem?
Yanjun Han, Jiantao Jiao, Tsachy Weissman
The Dirichlet prior is widely used in estimating discrete distributions and functionals of discrete distributions. In terms of Shannon entropy estimation, one approach is to plug-i…
cs.IT2015★ 10 cited
Adaptive Estimation of Shannon Entropy
Yanjun Han, Jiantao Jiao, Tsachy Weissman
We consider estimating the Shannon entropy of a discrete distribution from i.i.d. samples. Recently, Jiao, Venkat, Han, and Weissman, and Wu and Yang constructed approximat…