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The pushforward measure of $\mu$ under $g$ is $g_{\ast }\mu$, defined for $B\in \mathcal{B}$ byThe Lebesgue decomposition theorem says that if $\nu$ and $\mu$ are sigma-finite measures on the same measurable space, then uniquely

Let $f:[0,\infty )\to \mathbb{R}\cup +\infty$ be convex with $f(1)=0$. If $\lambda$ dominates the probability distributions $P,Q$, with densities $p,q$, their f-divergence isusing the lower-semicontinuous perspective convention where $q=0$. This definition is independent of the dominating measure.

The data processing inequality for f-divergences statesTo prove it, take $\lambda =P+Q$ and let $\mathcal{G}=g^{-1}(\mathcal{B})$. If $p=dP/d\lambda$ and $q=dQ/d\lambda$, then the pullbacks of the densities of $g_{\ast }P$ and $g_{\ast }Q$ with respect to $g_{\ast }\lambda$ are respectively ${\mathbb{E}}_{\lambda }[p\mid \mathcal{G}]$ and ${\mathbb{E}}_{\lambda }[q\mid \mathcal{G}]$. The perspective $F(a,b)=bf(a/b)$ of a convex function is jointly convex. Conditional Jensen inequality therefore givesIntegration proves the claim.

The Squared Hellinger distance isIf $P,Q$ have densities $p,q$ with respect to a sigma-finite measure $\mu$, this becomes

Fix any probability distribution $Q$ and set $p_j=P_j(A_j)$, $q_j=Q(A_j)$, and $t_j=H^2(P_j,Q)$. Applying the data processing inequality to the indicator function of $A_j$ gives the Bernoulli Hellinger boundThe hinted inequality impliesThe function $t\mapsto \sqrt{t(1-t/4)}$ is concave on $[0,2]$. Since the $A_j$ form a set partition, ${\sum }_j{q}_j=1$, and Jensen inequality givesTaking the infimum over $Q$ proves the stated inequality.

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The Stirling number of the second kind $\left\{\begin{array}{c}n\\ k\end{array}\right\}$ counts the set partitions of an $n$-element set into $k$ blocks. It satisfies