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Entropy, Vol. 22, Pages 236: Estimating Differential Entropy using Recursive Copula Splitting (Entropy)
 


A method for estimating the Shannon differential entropy of multidimensional random variables using independent samples is described. The method is based on decomposing the distribution into a product of marginal distributions and joint dependency, also known as the copula. The entropy of marginals is estimated using one-dimensional methods. The entropy of the copula, which always has a compact support, is estimated recursively by splitting the data along statistically dependent dimensions. The method can be applied both for distributions with compact and non-compact supports, which is imperative when the support is not known or of a mixed type (in different dimensions). At high dimensions (larger than 20), numerical examples demonstrate that our method is not only more accurate, but also significantly more efficient than existing approaches.


 
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