Entropy and thinning of discrete random variables

DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-7005-6_2MaRDI QIDQ2406336zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Johnson

Publication date 27 September 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05390

zbMATH Keywords

entropydiscrete random variablesPoisson approximationShepp-Olkin regime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: We describe five types of results concerning information and concentration of discrete random variables, and relationships between them, motivated by their counterparts in the continuous case. The results we consider are information theoretic approaches to Poisson approximation, the maximum entropy property of the Poisson distribution, discrete concentration (Poincar'{e} and logarithmic Sobolev) inequalities, monotonicity of entropy and concavity of entropy in the Shepp--Olkin regime.

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