DIVERGENCE MEASURE BETWEEN THE PROBABILITY ISTRIBUTIONS BASED ON MOMENTS
TAO Guiping1 , HAN Liyan2 , SONG Jie2
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1. School of Statistics, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070; 2. School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191; School of Statistics,Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070)
Under model uncertainty, decision-makers do not trust the reference distribution completely, and characterize the true distribution with a set of distributions deviating from the reference distribution. Since it is difficult to characterize the specific form of the unknown true distribution, and its deviation of the moments from the reference distribution are generally not too large, the paper aims to establish a distribution divergence measure depending only on the
moments and not on the specific forms of distributions to measure the deviation of the reference distribution from the true distribution. First, based on the moment generating function, we construct a probability distributions divergence measure based only on moments, then improve it to a imensionless measure, and analyze its invariance and convergence. Then, to meet the practical need we put forward a probability distributions divergence measure based only on the first four moments, and make a comparative analysis to the relative entropy, and give the critical values under different confidence levels for the normal distributions and Pareto distributions by Bootstrap method. The probability distributions divergence measure based only on moments can offer a powerful tool for robust control and decision-making.
TAO Guiping , HAN Liyan , SONG Jie.
DIVERGENCE MEASURE BETWEEN THE PROBABILITY ISTRIBUTIONS BASED ON MOMENTS. Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences, 2013, 33(9): 1071-1082 https://doi.org/10.12341/jssms12171