Maximum Entropy for Sums of Symmetric and Bounded Random Variables: A Short Derivation

DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.917660MaRDI QIDQ3604477zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yaming Yu

Publication date 24 February 2009

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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