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// Teoriya Veroyatnostei i ee Primeneniya
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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen.,
1978
Volume 23,
Issue 1,
Pages
196–198
(Mi tvp3026)
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On the entropy of a multinomial distribution
P. Mateev
Bulgaria
Abstract:
It is shown that the multinomial distribution corresponding to
$n$
independent trials with probabilities
$p_0,\dots,p_{t+1}$
of
$t+1$
outcomes in each trial, has the maximal entropy if
$p_0=\dots=p_t=1/(1+t)$
.
Received:
24.04.1976
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Theory of Probability and its Applications, 1978,
23
:1,
188–190
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