Statistical inference under multiterminal data compression

1 October 1998

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Vol. 44 (6) , 2300-2324
https://doi.org/10.1109/18.720540

Abstract

This paper presents a survey of the literature on the information-theoretic problems of statistical inference under multiterminal data compression with rate constraints. Significant emphasis is put on problems: (1) multiterminal hypothesis testing, (2) multiterminal parameter estimation and (3) multiterminal pattern classification, in either case of positive rates or zero rates. In addition, the paper includes three new results, i.e., the converse theorems for all problems of multiterminal hypothesis testing, multiterminal parameter estimation, and multiterminal pattern classification at the zero rate.

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