Exponential and logarithmic functions are typically presented as formulas with which students learn to associate the rules for exponents/logarithms, a particular algebraic form, and routine algorithms ...

A very strong relationship between the directed Kullback divergence and the likelihood function emerges simply and naturally in the context of exponential families. The directed Kullback divergence is ...

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