Pinsker's inequality

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:inequality
gptkbp:appliesTo probability distributions
gptkbp:field gptkb:information_theory
gptkb:probability_theory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pinsker's inequality
gptkbp:namedAfter Mark Semenovich Pinsker
gptkbp:publicationYear 1960s
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Doklady_Akademii_Nauk_SSSR
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Kullback–Leibler_divergence
total variation distance
gptkbp:state The total variation distance between two probability distributions is bounded above by the square root of half the Kullback–Leibler divergence between them.
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:machine_learning
statistical inference
information theory proofs
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Moises_S._Pinsker
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8