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most citedThe index of coincidence for the binomial distribution is log-convex

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math.CA20181 cited

Heun functions and combinatorial identities

Adina Barar, Gabriela Raluca Mocanu, Ioan Rasa

We give closed forms for several families of Heun functions related to classical entropies. By comparing two expressions of the same Heun function, we get several combinatorial ide…

math.CA2018

Heun functions related to entropies

Adina Barar, Gabriela Raluca Mocanu, Ioan Rasa

We consider the indices of coincidence for the binomial, Poisson, and negative binomial distributions. They are related in a simple manner to the Rényi entropy and Tsallis entropy.…

math.CA20182 cited

Bounds for some entropies and special functions

Adina Barar, Gabriela Raluca Mocanu, Ioan Rasa

We consider a family of probability distributions depending on a real parameter and including the binomial, Poisson and negative binomial distributions. The corresponding index of…

math.CA2017

A sharpening of a problem on Bernstein polynomials and convex functions

Ulrich Abel, Ioan Rasa

We present an elementary proof of a conjecture proposed by I. Rasa in 2017 which is an inequality involving Bernstein basis polynomials and convex functions. It was affirmed in pos…

math.CA20172 cited

The index of coincidence for the binomial distribution is log-convex

Ioan Rasa

We consider the binomial distribution with parameters and , and show that the sum of the squared probabilities is a log-convex function of . This completes the proof of a…

math.CA20151 cited

Entropies and the derivatives of some Heun functions

Ioan Rasa

This short note contains a list of new results concerning the Rényi entropy, the Tsallis entropy, and the Heun functions associated with positive linear operators.