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On the Equivalence of Statistical Distances for Isotropic Convex Measures

Probability 2021-12-17 v1

Abstract

We establish quantitative comparisons between classical distances for probability distributions belonging to the class of convex probability measures. Distances include total variation distance, Wasserstein distance, Kullback-Leibler distance and more general R\'enyi divergences. This extends a result of Meckes and Meckes (2014).

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@article{arxiv.2112.09009,
  title  = {On the Equivalence of Statistical Distances for Isotropic Convex Measures},
  author = {Arnaud Marsiglietti and Puja Pandey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.09009},
  year   = {2021}
}

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20 pages