Abstract

The concept of similarity is crucial in statistical thinking, although most often we translate it in terms of second order moments of the PDF. Correntropy is motivated through entropy which also quantifies the shape of the PDF. Properties of correntropy will be presented, as well as applications to real world problems. The Seminar will end with a set of open questions.

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