• DocumentCode
    2455347
  • Title

    Sufficient conditions for the convergence of the Shannon differential entropy

  • Author

    Silva, Jorge F. ; Parada, Patricio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    16-20 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    608
  • Lastpage
    612
  • Abstract
    This work revisits and extends results concerning the convergence of the Shannon differential entropy. Concrete connections with the convergence of probability measures in the sense of total variations and (direct and reverse) information divergence are established. In particular, under uniform bounded conditions on the sequence of probability measures, the results stipulate that the convergence in information divergence is sufficient to guarantee the convergence of the differential entropy functional.
  • Keywords
    entropy; probability; Shannon differential entropy; information divergence; probability measurement; uniform bounded condition; Concrete; Conferences; Convergence; Entropy; Estimation; Information theory; Limiting;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Paraty
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0438-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITW.2011.6089568
  • Filename
    6089568