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pith:2017:S2BDTAGNHB5KJHBFP6MBLTUANV
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Fano's inequality for random variables

Gilles Stoltz (GREGHEC, LMO), Pierre M\'enard (IMT), Sebastien Gerchinovitz (IMT)

arxiv:1702.05985 v3 · 2017-02-20 · math.ST · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.TH

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First computed 2026-05-17T23:43:43.531196Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

96823980cd387aa49c257f9815ce806d48b19b2f0fefa5bfc9744df0f40d847d

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05985 · arxiv_version: 1702.05985v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05985 · pith_short_12: S2BDTAGNHB5K · pith_short_16: S2BDTAGNHB5KJHBF · pith_short_8: S2BDTAGN
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S2BDTAGNHB5KJHBFP6MBLTUANV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 96823980cd387aa49c257f9815ce806d48b19b2f0fefa5bfc9744df0f40d847d
Canonical record JSON
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