Title :
A measure of discrimination and its geometric properties
Author :
Sundaresan, Rajesh
Author_Institution :
Qualcomm Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
We study a measure of discrimination that arises in the context of redundancy in guessing the realization of a random variable. This discrimination measure satisfies a Pythagorean-type inequality. The analog of this inequality for Kullback-Leibler divergence is well-known.
Keywords :
entropy; information theory; probability; redundancy; Kullback-Leibler divergence; Pythagorean-type inequality; Renyi entropy; discrimination measure; geometric properties; probability mass function; random variable; redundancy; Data processing; Entropy; Euclidean distance; Q measurement; Random variables;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7501-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023536
