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1Jülich Supercomputing Center, Jülich Research Center, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.
Abstract:
We present a new class of estimators of Shannon entropy for severely undersampled discrete distributions. It is based on a generalization of an estimator proposed by T. Schürmann, which itself is a generalization of an estimator proposed by myself.For a special set of parameters, they are completely free of bias and have a finite variance, something which is widely believed to be impossible. We present also detailed numerical tests, where we compare them with other recent estimators and with exact results, and point out a clash with Bayesian estimators for mutual information.
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