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This paper deals with the characterizations of some measures of entropy, inaccuracy and directed—divergence by means of functional equations.
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Mittal, D.P. On some functional equations concerning entropy, directed divergence and inaccuracy. Metrika 22, 35–45 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01899712
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