The Information Theory of Comparisons With Applications to Statistics and the Social Sciences /

• Main Author: Bowden, Roger (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Statistics .; Statistical Theory and Methods.

This book finds a broad domain of relevance in statistics and the social sciences. Its conceptual development is supported by applications to economics and income distribution, finance, education, demographics and actuarial science, political studies, psychology, and general statistics. Fresh perspe...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Partition entropy
• Chapter 2. Entropic shifting Perspectives and Applications
• Chapter 3. Moments, Measures and Metrics
• Chapter 4. Information Comparisons in Practice
• Chapter 5. Binary Perspectives for Spread and Asymmetry
• Chapter 6. Higher Dimensions
• Chapter 7. Entropy, Risk and Comparability.