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Asymptotic form of the bias of entropy estimator for Bernoulli measures

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The exact asymptotic form for the bias of entropy estimator [8] for Bernoulli measures is found.

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Original Russian Text © E.A. Timofeev, 2009, published in Avtomatika i Vychislitel’naya Tekhnika, 2009, No. 4, pp. 96–108.

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Timofeev, E.A. Asymptotic form of the bias of entropy estimator for Bernoulli measures. Aut. Conrol Comp. Sci. 44, 467–475 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S014641161007014X

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