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## Calculate the Logarithmic (Ignorance) Score for a mixture of Normal distributions, for example generated by ensemble dressing

### Description

Calculate the Logarithmic (Ignorance) Score for a mixture of Normal distributions, for example generated by ensemble dressing

### Usage

    DressIgn(dressed.ens, obs)

### Arguments

`dressed.ens` | a list with elements 'ens', a N*R matrix representing N time instances of kernel centers, and 'ker.wd', a N*R matrix with corresponding kernel standard deviations. See function 'DressEnsemble'
`obs` | a numeric vector of length N with real-valued observations

### Value

numeric vector of length N with the Ignorance score values

### References

Roulston and Smith (2002) Evaluating Probabilistic Forecasts Using Information Theory, doi: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<1653:EPFUIT>2.0.CO;2

### See Also

DressEnsemble, DressCrps

### Examples

    data(eurotempforecast)
    d.ens <- DressEnsemble(ens)
    DressIgn(d.ens, obs)

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