Concavity of entropy along binomial convolutions

DOI10.1214/ECP.V17-1707zbMATH Open1246.60031MaRDI QIDQ428728FDOQ428728

Authors: Erwan Hillion 

Publication date: 22 June 2012

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

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zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributionconcavity of entropyOlkin-Shepp conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Distribution theory (60E99)

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