Partial monotonicity of entropy revisited

Wanwan Xia

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2019, vol. 145, issue C, 248-253

Abstract: In this short note, we revisit the partial monotonicity of the differential entropy, and point out some errors in Shangari and Chen (2012) and Gupta and Bajaj (2013). The partial monotonicity of the Shannon entropy is also established.

Keywords: Entropy; Log-concavity; Dispersive order; Partial monotonicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2018.09.015

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