Gibbs' inequality

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:mathematical_concept
gptkbp:appliesTo probability distributions
gptkbp:field gptkb:information_theory
gptkb:probability_theory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gibbs' inequality
gptkbp:implies entropy is maximized for the uniform distribution
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Josiah_Willard_Gibbs
gptkbp:publishedIn various mathematical and information theory texts
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Kullback–Leibler_divergence
gptkb:Shannon_entropy
gptkbp:state The Kullback–Leibler divergence is always non-negative
gptkbp:usedIn proof of the non-negativity of relative entropy
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Josiah_Willard_Gibbs_Jr.
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8