Estimators for mutual information are typically biased. However, in the case of the Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator for metric spaces, a type of nearest neighbour estimator, it is possible to calculate the bias explicitly.
翻译:对相互信息进行估算的人通常有偏差,但是,对于测量空间的Kozachenko-Leonenko测量员,即近邻测算员,可以明确计算偏差。