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On different characterizations of entropies

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Aczel, J. (1969). On different characterizations of entropies. In: Behara, M., Krickeberg, K., Wolfowitz, J. (eds) Probability and Information Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0079114

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