A proof of the Shepp-Olkin entropy monotonicity conjecture

DOI10.1214/19-EJP380WikidataQ123274671 ScholiaQ123274671MaRDI QIDQ2279321FDOQ2279321

Oliver Johnson, Erwan Hillion

Publication date: 12 December 2019

Published in: Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09791

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zbMATH Keywords

entropymixing coefficientsPoisson-binomial distributionfunctional inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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