Biography
Publication list
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Antonín Otáhal was born in 1955 in Ostrava. In 1979, he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague and earned the title RNDr. in the field of probability and statistics. Since 1979, he was a research student at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and in 1984 he was appointed a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences (CSc.) in the field of Theoretical Cybernetics. He worked full-time at the ÚTIA until 1993 when he founded his company and engaged in entrepreneurial activities (in the field of language education and translation – he translated approximately 20 works of fiction from English to Czech). At that time, he worked part-time at ÚTIA, primarily as a member of the organizing committees of the Prague Conferences on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions, and Random Processes. Since 2007, he has been working full-time again at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences, this time as the Deputy Director for Operations.
Since 2007, he has been a member of the Economic Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Books and chapters
- : Teorie informace, Masarykův ústav vyšších studií ČVUT (Praha, 1991) [1991]
Journal articles
- : Minimum entropy of error estimation for discrete random variables, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 42 4 (1996), p. 1193-1201 [1996]
- : Minimum entropy of error estimate for multi-dimensional parameter and finite-state-space observations. , Kybernetika 31 4 (1995), p. 331-335 [1995]
- : Minimum entropy of error principle in estimation, Information Sciences 79, p. 123-144 [1994]
- : Relative Stationary Probabilities, Kybernetika 29 2 (1993), p. 144-148 [1993]
- : Parameter Estimation for Nearest Neighbour Gaussian Random Fields in the Plane, Problems of Control and Information Theory 20 6 (1991), p. 429-439 [1991]
Other publications
- : Weight coefficients of maximum pseudo-likelihood estimators for systems of binary random variables with pair interactions, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mathematical Statistics. PROBASTAT'94, p. 209-214, Eds: Pázman Andrej, Witkovský Viktor, Mathematical Institute (Bratislava, 1996) [1996]
- : On the structure and applications of minimum entropy of error estimation for binary random variables, Proceedings of Joint Conference on Information Sciences, p. 291-294, Duke University (Pinehurst, 1995) [1995]
- : Finiteness and continuity of differential entropy, Asymptotic Statistics. Proceedings, p. 415-419, Eds: Mandl P., Hušková M., PhysicaVerlag (Heidelberg, 1994) [1994]
- : Minimum Entropy of Error Estimation for Discrete Random Variables, University of Technology (Lulea, 1994) [1994]
- : Náhodná pole a jejich aplikace, ROBUST 94. Sborník prací zimní školy JČMF, p. 32-43, Eds: Antoch J., Dohnal G., JČMF (Praha, 1994) [1994]
- : Finite Relative Stationary Random Sequences, Second European Congress on Systems Science, p. 915-918, Afcet (Paris, 1993) [1993]
- : Minimum Entropy of Error Principle in Estimation: A Short Survey, Sixth Joint Swedish-Russian International Workshop on Information Theory, p. 429-431, Studentlitteratur (Lund, 1993) [1993]
- : Minimum Entropy of Error Principle in Estimation, University of Technology (Lulea, 1992) [1992]
- : Contraction of Divergences by a Markov Kernel, Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics. PROBASTAT '91, p. 344-35O, Eds: Pázman A., Volaufová J., Univerzita Komenského (Bratislava, 1992) [1992]
- : Contraction of Divergences by a Markov Kernel, Transactions of DISTANCIA '92, p. 395-397, Eds: Joly S., Le Calve G., Université Rennes (Rennes, 1992) [1992]
- : Ergodic Coefficient in Non-Homogeneous Markov Chains, Transactions of the Eleventh Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions, Random Processes, p. 269-274, Academia (Prague, 1992) [1992]
- : Odhad tlaku v Isingově modelu, Sborník prací zimní školy JČSMF ROBUST 90, p. 135-137, JČMF (Praha, 1990) [1990]
- : Odhady parametrů pro vektorová Gauss-Markovova náhodná pole, ROBUST 88, p. 99-104, Jednota československých matematiků a fyziků (Praha, 1988) [1988]