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A characterization of monotone and regular divergences

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Preprint enviat per a la seva publicació en una revista científica: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, (1998), volume 50, nº 3, pp. 433–450. [http://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003569210573]

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In this paper we characterize the local structure of monotone and regular divergences, which include f-divergences as a particular case, by giving their Taylor expansion up to fourth order. We extend a previous result obtained by Čencov, using the invariant properties of Amari's α-connections.

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Reproducció digital del document original en paper [CRAI Biblioteca de Matemàtiques i Informàtica - Dipòsit Departament CAIXA 37.8]

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(c) José Manuel Corcuera Valverde et al., 1996

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Preprints de Matemàtiques - Mathematics Preprint Series

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Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Matemàtica

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A characterization of monotone and regular divergences