Confliction of the convexity and metric properties in f-divergences

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E90-A, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1848-1853

  Khosravifard, Mohammadali ^a   Fooladivanda, Dariush ^a   Gulliver, T Aaron ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convexity; Csisz r f divergence; Identity of indiscernibles; Metric; Triangle inequality; Variational distance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

CONVEXITY; IDENTITY OF INDISCERNIBLES; METRIC; TRIANGLE INEQUALITY; VARIATIONAL DISTANCE;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 68949135205     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.9.1848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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