An upper bound for entropy of discrete distributions having assigned moments

DOI10.1016/S0096-3003(01)00232-6MaRDI QIDQ1855874zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Aldo Tagliani

Publication date 28 January 2003

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0096-3003(01)00232-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Distribution theory (60E99)

Review text

The author obtains bounds on the entropy for discrete probability distributions in terms of some preassigned moments. Some special cases are discussed.

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