a utility-based approach to some information measures

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Abstract
We review a decision theoretic, i.e., utility-based, motivation for entropy and Kullback-Leibler relative entropy, the natural generalizations that follow, and various properties of thesegeneralized quantities. We then consider these generalized quantities in an easily interpreted spe-cial case. We show that the resulting quantities, share many of the properties of entropy andrelative entropy, such as the data processing inequality and the second law of thermodynamics.We formulate an important statistical learning problem – probability estimation – in terms of ageneralized relative entropy. The solution of this problem reflects general risk preferences via theutility function; moreover, the solution is optimal in a sense of robust absolute performance.
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Authors ;Sven Sandow;Jinggang Huang;Craig Friedman
Journal European journal of medicinal chemistry
Year 2007
DOI
10.3390/e9010001
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http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/9/1/1/
Keywords
statistical learning expected utility

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