Two papers available

[David R Wolf]

          FTP-host: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu
          FTP-filename: /pub/neuroprose/wolpert.entropy.tar.Z
          FTP-filename: /pub/neuroprose/wolf.mutual1.ps.Z
          FTP-filename: /pub/neuroprose/wolf.mutual1.ps.Z

The following tech reports are now available in neuroprose. The papers have
been submitted, and any comments are welcomed.

david
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D.H.Wolpert and D.R. Wolf:
Estimating Functions of Probability Distributions from a Finite Set of
Samples, Part 1: Bayes Estimators and the Shannon Entropy.

D.R. Wolf and D.H. Wolpert
Estimating Functions of Distributions from A Finite Set of Samples,
Part 2: Bayes Estimators for Mutual Information, Chi-Squared, Covariance
and other Statistics.

We present estimators for entropy and other functions of a discrete probability
distribution when the data is a finite sample drawn from that probability
distribution.  In particular, for the case when the probability distribution
is a joint distribution, we present finite sample estimators for the mutual
information, covariance, and chi-squared functions of that probability
distribution.

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The papers are found in the neuroprose archive under

			wolpert.entropy.tar.Z		21 pages text, 6 figures, captions
			wolf.mutual1.ps.Z			25 pages
			wolf.mutual2.ps.Z			25 pages

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	wolpert.entropy.tar.Z
	Small sample estimator for entropy.

	wolf.mutual1.ps.Z
	wolf.mutual2.ps.Z
	Small sample estimators for mutual information and other functions.

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