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Discrete Stein characterizations and discrete information distances

Probability 2012-01-04 v1

Abstract

We construct two different Stein characterizations of discrete distributions and use these to provide a natural connection between Stein characterizations for discrete distributions and discrete information functionals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1201.0143,
  title  = {Discrete Stein characterizations and discrete information distances},
  author = {Christophe Ley and Yvik Swan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0143},
  year   = {2012}
}
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