I am interested in finding the distribution “$ p^*$ ” closest to an empirical distribution $ \hat{p}$ where $ p^*$ is a mixture of first and zeroth order Markov models. That is, I want to find $ $ p^* = \arg\min_p \sum_{i,j} D\left(\,\hat{p}(j|i)\, \| \, p(j|i) \,\right) $ $ subject to the following constraints $Read more