Entropy versus variance for symmetric log-concave random variables and related problems

11/01/2018
by   Mokshay Madiman, et al.
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We show that the uniform distribution minimises entropy among all symmetric log-concave distributions with fixed variance. We construct a counter-example regarding monotonicity and entropy comparison of weighted sums of independent identically distributed log-concave random variables.

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