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From your link:

    a measure of how one probability distribution P is different from a second,
ie. literally it's a separation measure for distributions .. just as I recalled from my first encounter with the notion ~ 1984 (ish).

If you're sincere you should either add those points back or, preferably, expand upon your theory of how my snap take is incorrect.

( I'm aware it's not a metric due to triangle inequality, etc. )



The snap take came across as an argument about which of two names for the measure is better-known.

The wikipedia page implies the opposite of that argument.

Perhaps that’s changed since 1984, but the proposition was about current practices.


It's been Kullback since birth in 1907 to the best of my knowledge, never once Kullbeck.

As a fully anglicized US citizen born in Brooklyn, New York I don't think there's ever been any vowel confusion over the spelling of the name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Kullback

Admittedly I did check as it's not uncommon for mathematicians to have alternate spellings for their names.

Ditto Leibler, born Chicago, Illinois in 1914, no dropped L

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leibler




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