Solution of Shannon's problem on the monotonicity of entropy

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 975-982

  Artstein, Shiri ^a   Ball, Keith M ^b   Barthe, Franck ^c   Naor, Assaf ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Entropy growth; Fisher information

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044228109     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-04-00459-X     Document Type: Article

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