DocumentCode
1525142
Title
On Pairs of
-Divergences and Their Joint Range
Author
Harremoës, Peter ; Vajda, Igor
Author_Institution
Copenhagen Bus. Coll., Copenhagen, Denmark
Volume
57
Issue
6
fYear
2011
fDate
6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
3230
Lastpage
3235
Abstract
We compare two f-divergences and prove that their joint range is the convex hull of the joint range for distributions supported on only two points. The proofs use various methods from topology and convex analysis.
Keywords
convex programming; information theory; statistical testing; convex analysis; convex hull; joint range; Atmospheric measurements; Convex functions; Density measurement; Joints; Loss measurement; Particle measurements; Testing; $f$ -divergence; Convexity; joint range;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9448
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIT.2011.2137353
Filename
5773031
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