Title :
On Rényi measures and hypothesis testing
Author_Institution :
Inf. Theor. & Applic. Center, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA
fDate :
July 31 2011-Aug. 5 2011
Abstract :
We provide a variational characterization for the various Rényi information measures via their Shannon counterparts, and demonstrate how properties of the former can be recovered from first principle via the associated properties of the latter. Motivated by this characterization, we give a new operational interpretation for the Rényi divergence in a two-sensor composite hypothesis testing framework.
Keywords :
information theory; sensors; Renyi divergence; Renyi information measures; Shannon counterparts; hypothesis testing; operational interpretation; two-sensor composite; Radio access networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
St. Petersburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0596-0
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-8095
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2011.6034266
