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Monotonicity of Entropy and Fisher Information: A Quick Proof via Maximal Correlation

Information Theory 2016-10-14 v1 math.IT Probability

Abstract

A simple proof is given for the monotonicity of entropy and Fisher information associated to sums of i.i.d. random variables. The proof relies on a characterization of maximal correlation for partial sums due to Dembo, Kagan and Shepp.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04174,
  title  = {Monotonicity of Entropy and Fisher Information: A Quick Proof via Maximal Correlation},
  author = {Thomas A. Courtade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04174},
  year   = {2016}
}

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To appear, Communications on Information and Systems