Csiszár's f-divergence

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:mathematical_concept
statistical divergence
gptkbp:definedIn probability distributions
gptkbp:describes difference between probability distributions
gptkbp:field gptkb:information_theory
statistics
gptkbp:form D_f(P||Q) = ∫ f(dP/dQ) dQ for continuous distributions
D_f(P||Q) = ∑_x q(x) f(p(x)/q(x)) for discrete distributions
gptkbp:generalizes gptkb:Hellinger_distance
gptkb:Kullback–Leibler_divergence
gptkb:χ²-divergence
total variation distance
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Csiszár's f-divergence
gptkbp:introducedIn 1963
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Imre_Csiszár
gptkbp:property non-negative
zero if and only if P = Q
gptkbp:requires convex function f
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:machine_learning
gptkb:information_geometry
hypothesis testing
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Imre_Csiszár
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6