Abstract
The concept of weighted entropy takes into account values of different outcomes, i.e., makes entropy context-dependent, through the weight function. In this paper, we establish a number of simple inequalities for the weighted entropies (general as well as specific), mirroring similar bounds on standard (Shannon) entropies and related quantities. The required assumptions are written in terms of various expectations of weight functions. Examples are weighted Ky Fan and weighted Hadamard inequalities involving determinants of positive-definite matrices, and weighted Cramér-Rao inequalities involving the weighted Fisher information matrix.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 817-848 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | Aequationes Mathematicae |
Volume | 90 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1 2016 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Mathematics
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
- Applied Mathematics