On the Entropy of Compound Distributions on Nonnegative Integers

DOI10.1109/TIT.2009.2023725MaRDI QIDQ4975961zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yaming Yu

Publication date 8 August 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2009.2023725

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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• On the inclusion probabilities in some unequal probability sampling plans without replacement
• Relative log-concavity and a pair of triangle inequalities
• Log-concavity of compound distributions with applications in operational and actuarial models
• Information in Probability: Another Information-Theoretic Proof of a Finite de Finetti Theorem
• Some stochastic inequalities for weighted sums
• Concentration inequalities for log-concave sequences
• Logconcavity, twice-logconcavity and Turán-type inequalities
• Log-concavity and relative log-concave ordering of compound distributions
• Anti-concentration inequalities for log-concave variables on the real line

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