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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.64785/mc.31.1.7

Notes about statistical estimation of Shannon entropy

Yu Sun ; Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London , UK


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Abstract

We improve the method of Bulinski and Dimitrov (2019) to prove the \(𝐿^{2} \)-consistency of the KozachenkoLeonenko estimator for (differential) Shannon entropy

Keywords

Shannon differential entropy; Nearest Neighbor graphs, Unbiasedness; Consis- tency, Kozachenko-Leonenko estimate; L 2 -consistency

Hrčak ID:

345980

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/345980

Publication date:

2.4.2026.

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