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In 1938, Gini studied a mean having two parameters. Later, many authors studied properties of this mean. It contains as particular cases the famous means such as harmonic, geometric, arithmetic, etc. Also it contains, the power mean of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-23 Inder Jeet Taneja

In this paper, the concept of the classical $f$-divergence for a pair of measures is extended to the mixed $f$-divergence for multiple pairs of measures. The mixed $f$-divergence provides a way to measure the difference between multiple…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Elisabeth M. Werner , Deping Ye

This work studies the Geometric Jensen-Shannon divergence, based on the notion of geometric mean of probability measures, in the setting of Gaussian measures on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. On the set of all Gaussian measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Minh Ha Quang , Frank Nielsen

The Jensen-Shannon divergence is a renown bounded symmetrization of the unbounded Kullback-Leibler divergence which measures the total Kullback-Leibler divergence to the average mixture distribution. However the Jensen-Shannon divergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Frank Nielsen

The classical AM-GM inequality has been generalized in a number of ways. Generalizations which incorporate variance appear to be the most useful in economics and finance, as well as mathematically natural. Previous work leaves unanswered…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Burt Rodin

We give bounds on the difference between the weighted arithmetic mean and the weighted geometric mean. These imply refined Young inequalities and the reverses of the Young inequality. We also study some properties on the difference between…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Shigeru Furuichi , Nicuşor Minculete

This paper extends the asymmetric Kullback-Leibler divergence and symmetric Jensen-Shannon divergence from two probability measures to the case of two sets of probability measures. We establish some fundamental properties of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Xinpeng Li , Miao Yu

We construct measure which determines a two-variable mean in a very natural way. Using that measure we can extend the mean to infinite sets as well. E.g. we can calculate the geometric mean of any set with positive Lebesgue measure. We also…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Attila Losonczi

Jensen-Shannon divergence is a well known multi-purpose measure of dissimilarity between probability distributions. It has been proven that the square root of this quantity is a true metric in the sense that, in addition to the basic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Tristán M. Osán , Diego G. Bussandri , Pedro W. Lamberti

In this paper, the concept of the classical $f$-divergence (for a pair of measures) is extended to the mixed $f$-divergence (for multiple pairs of measures). The mixed $f$-divergence provides a way to measure the difference between multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Elisabeth M. Werner , Deping Ye

Minimum divergence estimators provide a natural choice of estimators in a statistical inference problem. Different properties of various families of these divergence measures such as Hellinger distance, power divergence, density power…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Subhrajyoty Roy , Supratik Basu , Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

In this article, we present the best possible upper and lower bounds for the Neuman-S\'andor mean in terms of the geometric combinations of harmonic and quadratic means, geometric and quadratic means, harmonic and contra-harmonic means, and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Tie-Hong Zhao , Yu-Ming Chu , Bao-Yu Liu

We introduce a novel family of distances, called the chord gap divergences, that generalizes the Jensen divergences (also called the Burbea-Rao distances), and study its properties. It follows a generalization of the celebrated statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Frank Nielsen

Divergence functions play a key role as to measure the discrepancy between two points in the field of machine learning, statistics and signal processing. Well-known divergences are the Bregman divergences, the Jensen divergences and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-09 Tomohiro Nishiyama

Harmonic, Geometric, Arithmetic, Heronian and Contraharmonic means have been studied by many mathematicians. In 2003, H. Evens studied these means from geometrical point of view and established some of the inequalities between them in using…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2020-01-06 Fariba Khoshnasib-Zeinabad , Mohammadhossein Mehrabi

One of the goals of this article is to define a an unified setting adapted to the description of means (normalized integrals or invariant means) on an infinite product of measured spaces with infinite measure. We first remark that some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Jean-Pierre Magnot

The aim of this paper is to introduce several notions of homogenization in various classes of weighted means, which include quasiarithmetic and semideviation means. In general, the homogenization is an operator which attaches a homogeneous…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Zsolt Páles , Paweł Pasteczka

Here we examine some connections between the notions of generalized arithmetic means, geodesics, Lagrange-Hamilton dynamics and Bregman divergences. In a previous paper we developed a predictive interpretation of generalized arithmetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Henryk Gzyl

The basic properties of the Fisher information allow to reveal the statistical meaning of classical inequalities between mean functions. The properties applied to scale mixtures of Gaussian distributions lead to a new mean function of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Abram M. Kagan , Paul J. Smith

It is shown that Newton's inequalities and the related Maclaurin's inequalities provide several refinements of the fundamental Arithmetic mean - Geometric mean - Harmonic mean inequality in terms of the means and variance of positive real…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-16 R. Sharma , A. Sharma , R. Saini , G. Kapoor