Download or read book Statistical Inference Based on Divergence Measures written by Leandro Pardo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of using functionals of Information Theory, such as entropies or divergences, in statistical inference is not new. However, in spite of the fact that divergence statistics have become a very good alternative to the classical likelihood ratio test and the Pearson-type statistic in discrete models, many statisticians remain unaware of this p