random variable functional

A random variable functional is a mapping that takes one or more random variables (or their distributions) as input and returns a real-valued quantity summarizing some aspect of their probabilistic behavior.

Observed surface forms (3)

• f-divergence ×2
• functional ×1
• statistical divergence ×1

Instances (4)

• Shannon entropy
• Minkowski functional via concept surface "functional"
• Rényi divergence via concept surface "f-divergence"
• Kullback–Leibler divergence via concept surface "statistical divergence"