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When do finite sample effects significantly affect entropy estimates ?

Authors	T. Dudok de Wit
Categories	physics.data-an
ArXiv ID	physics/9906064
URL	https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9906064
DOI	10.1007/s100510050963

Abstract

An expression is proposed for determining the error caused on entropy estimates by finite sample effects. This expression is based on the Ansatz that the ranked distribution of probabilities tends to follow an empirical Zipf law.

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