A note on interval cumulative past Renyi entropy

Abstract

In analogy with cumulative residual entropy, Di Crescenzo and Longobardi (2009) proposed cumulative past entropy which served as the basis for many following works. To this end, we define cumulative past Renyi entropy for double truncated random variable which we call as interval cumulative past Renyi entropy (ICPRE). Some properties, such as effect of monotone transformation and bounds of ICPRE, are studied. Furthermore, it is shown that the proposed measure uniquely determines the distribution function and characterizes certain lifetime distributions. Finally, non-parametric estimators of ICPRE are obtained and the best proposed estimator is investigated with the help of simulated data set and real-life data set.