A proof of the Shepp-Olkin entropy monotonicity conjecture

DOI10.1214/19-EJP380MaRDI QIDQ2279321zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Erwan Hillion, Oliver Johnson

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, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1573268590

zbMATH Keywords

entropymixing coefficientsPoisson-binomial distributionfunctional inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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