A General Divergence Measure for Monotonic Functions and Applications in Information Theory

2004/01/27 by Sever S Dragomir, Sever Silvestru Dragomir, Dragomir, Sever Silvestru
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0401368

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Abstract

A general divergence measure for monotonic functions is introduced. Its connections with the f-divergence for convex functions are explored. The main properties are pointed out.

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