November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
6h 47m
English
book
Handbook of Differential Entropy
by Joseph Victor Michalowicz, Jonathan M. Nichols, Frank Bucholtz
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126 Handbook of Differential Entropy
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µ = 0
σ = 0.5
µ = 0
σ = 1
µ = 1
σ = 2
FIGURE 4.37
Probability density functions for the normal distribution.
Probability density: p(x) =
1
σ
√
2π
e
−
1
2σ
2
(x−µ)
2
Range: −∞ < x < ∞
Parameters: −∞ < µ < ∞; σ > 0
Mean: µ
Variance: σ
2
r
th
moment about the mean: =
(
0 : r odd
σ
r
r!
2
r/2
(r/2)!
: r even
r
th
moment about the origin: µ
r
+
r
P
k=2
k even
r
k
µ
r−k
σ
k
k!
2
k/2
(k/2)!
Mode: µ
Differential Entropies for Probability Distributions 127
Characteristic function: e
(iµt−
1
2
σ
2
t
2
)
Entropy: h
X
=
1
2
log
2
(2πeσ
2
)
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
−2
−1
0
1
2
3
σ
2
h
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