A Maximum-Entropy Method to Estimate Discrete Distributions from Samples Ensuring Nonzero Probabilities
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Entropy
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e20080601