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Information theory

inequality bounding the total variation distance between two distributions by the square root of half their Kullback-Leibler divergence.

In information theory, Pinsker's inequality refers to inequality bounding the total variation distance between two distributions by the square root of half their Kullback-Leibler divergence. This meaning comes from Pinsker (1964) in Information and information stability of random variables and processes.[1]

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Pinsker, M. S. (1964). Information and information stability of random variables and processes. Holden-Day, Inc. ISBN 9780816268047

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