[R] Kullback-Leibler divergence

[Terrence Murphy]

Dear R users,

Is anyone willing to share some sample code using R that calculates the 
Kullback-Leibler divergence in information contained in the the posterior 
distribution relative to the prior for some simple continuous distribution 
such as a normal?  We are thinking of an informative prior and using 
Kullback-Leibler to quantify how much information is gained from the 
merging of the data with the prior.




Terrence E. Murphy, Ph.D.
Program on Aging
Yale University
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