Conditional Rényi Divergences and Horse Betting

Motivated by a horse betting problem, a new conditional Rényi divergence is introduced. It is compared with the conditional Rényi divergences that appear in the definitions of the dependence measures by Csiszár and Sibson, and the properties of all three are studied with e...

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Main Authors: Cédric Bleuler, Amos Lapidoth, Christoph Pfister
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/3/316