Information gain within nonextensive thermostatistics
- 18 November 1998
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 39 (12) , 6490-6501
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.532660
Abstract
We discuss the information theoretical foundations of the Kullback information gain, recently generalized within a nonextensive thermostatistical formalism. General properties are studied and, in particular, a consistent test for measuring the degree of correlation between random variables is proposed. In addition, minimum entropy distributions are discussed and the H-theorem is proved within the generalized context.Keywords
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