Connectionists: Useful Expressions for Mutual Information

[Marcus Hutter]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to announce 3 papers which appeared recently that
derive various general and simple expressions for mutual
information for unknown chances and missing data.

M. Hutter and M. Zaffalon.
Distribution of Mutual Information from Complete and Incomplete Data
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 48:3 (2005) 633-657
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.LG/0403025

M. Zaffalon and M. Hutter.
Robust Inference of Trees
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (2005) to appear
http://www.idsia.ch/~zaffalon/papers/treesj.pdf

M. Hutter.
Robust Estimators under the Imprecise Dirichlet Model
Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their 
Applications (ISIPTA-2003) 274-289
http://www.carleton-scientific.com/isipta/PDF/021.pdf

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Marcus Hutter and Marco Zaffalon, Senior Researchers, IDSIA
Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
Galleria 2 CH-6928 Manno(Lugano) - Switzerland
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