• DocumentCode
    2057279
  • Title

    A measure of discrimination and its geometric properties

  • Author

    Sundaresan, Rajesh

  • Author_Institution
    Qualcomm Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    264
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7501-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023536
  • Filename
    1023536
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2057279