Title :
Some inequalities relating different measures of divergence between two probability distributions
Author :
Withers, Lang, Jr.
Author_Institution :
Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
fDate :
7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This note presents new inequalities relating different divergence measures in the family of “convex likelihood-ratio expectation” measures of Csiszar (1967), Ali and Silvey (1966), and especially in the single-parameter family of “AM-GM” divergence measures. The most prominent result is that θ2 ⩽¼J, where θ is the Bhattacharyya angle of divergence (a true distance metric), and J is the symmetric cross-entropy. A pair of “log Γ” divergences is also introduced and related to the cross-entropies I and J
Keywords :
entropy; information theory; probability; AM-GM divergence measures; Bhattacharyya angle of divergence; convex likelihood-ratio expectation measures; distance metric; divergence measures; inequalities; probability distributions; symmetric cross-entropy; Content addressable storage; Image coding; Image restoration; Kernel; Probability distribution; Signal processing; Signal restoration; Statistical distributions; Taylor series;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on