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
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