Monotonic Decrease of the Non-Gaussianness of the Sum of Independent Random Variables: A Simple Proof

DOI10.1109/TIT.2006.880066zbMath1320.60111OpenAlexW2104072072MaRDI QIDQ3548022

Sergio Verdú, Antonia M. Tulino

Publication date: 21 December 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.2006.880066

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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