Moments, Concentration, and Entropy of Log-Concave Distributions

05/17/2022
by   Arnaud Marsiglietti, et al.
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We utilize and extend a simple and classical mechanism, combining log-concavity and majorization in the convex order to derive moment, concentration, and entropy inequalities for log-concave random variables with respect to a reference measure.

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