A Note on the W-S Lower Bound of the MEE Estimation

作者：Chen Badong^*; Wang Guangmin; Zheng Nanning; Principe Jose C

来源：Entropy, 2014, 16(2): 814-824.

DOI：10.3390/e16020814

• estimation
• entropy
• MEE estimation
• W-S lower bound

The minimum error entropy (MEE) estimation is concerned with the estimation of a certain random variable (unknown variable) based on another random variable (observation), so that the entropy of the estimation error is minimized. This estimation method may outperform the well-known minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation especially for non-Gaussian situations. There is an important performance bound on the MEE estimation, namely the W-S lower bound, which is computed as the conditional entropy of the unknown variable given observation. Though it has been known in the literature for a considerable time, up to now there is little study on this performance bound. In this paper, we reexamine the W-S lower bound. Some basic properties of the W-S lower bound are presented, and the characterization of Gaussian distribution using the W-S lower bound is investigated.

• 出版日期2014-2
• 单位西安交通大学