Preface.- Divergence Functions and Geometric Structures They Induce on a Manifold.- Geometry on Positive Definite Matrices Deformed by V-potentials and Its Submanifold Structure.- Hessian structures and divergence functions on deformed exponential families.- Harmonic maps relative to a-connections.- A Riemannian geometry in the q-exponential Banach manifold induced by q-divergences.- Computational algebraic methods in efficient estimation.

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