Unbiased Entropy Estimator for Binary Sequences

E. A. Timofeev

P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia

Abstract: A new class of metrics on a space of right-sided infinite sequences drawn from a binary alphabet was introduced.

Keywords: entropy, nonparametric statistic, ball, Bernoulli’s measure.

UDC: 519.987

Received: 12.01.2013