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A Bit of Information Theory, and the Data Augmentation Algorithm Converges
Yaming Yu
The data augmentation (DA) algorithm is a simple and powerful tool in statistical computing. In this note basic information theory is used to prove a nontrivial convergence theorem…
cs.IT2008★ 21 cited
Monotonic Convergence in an Information-Theoretic Law of Small Numbers
Yaming Yu
An "entropy increasing to the maximum" result analogous to the entropic central limit theorem (Barron 1986; Artstein et al. 2004) is obtained in the discrete setting. This involves…