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

DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.917660zbMATH Open1328.94031MaRDI QIDQ3604477FDOQ3604477

Authors: Yaming Yu 

Publication date: 24 February 2009

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

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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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