The design of mutual information as a global correlation quantifier

Using first principles from inference, we design a set of functionals for the purposes of ranking joint probability distributions with respect to their correlations. Starting with a general functional, we impose its desired behavior through the Principle of Constant Correlations (PCC), which constra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carrara, Nicholas, Vanslette, Kevin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: MDPI 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125652