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In this paper, we provide Poincaré-type upper and lower variance bounds for a function g(X) of a discrete integer-valued random variable (r.v.) X, in terms of the (forward) differences of g up to some ...

Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Covariance: a measure of the direction of the linear relationship between two variables. Discrete ...

where \(\mathsf{G}(\cdot)\) is some convex operator and \(\mathcal{F}\) is as set of feasible input distributions. Examples of such an optimization problem include finding capacity in information ...