The increasing property for binomial and Poisson distributions

Let MM be a binomially or Poisson-distributed random variable with GG-transform G(M)G(M), and let Φ\Phi denote the standard Gaussian distribution function. The increasing property. The function

mP(M=m)Φ(G(m+1))Φ(G(m))m\longmapsto\frac{P(M=m)}{\Phi\left(G(m+1)\right)-\Phi\left(G(m)\right)}

is increasing, while the function

mP(M=m)Φ(G(m))Φ(G(m1))m\longmapsto\frac{P(M=m)}{\Phi\left(G(m)\right)-\Phi\left(G(m-1)\right)}

is decreasing. The source describes this as a stronger conjecture that implies the intersection property for binomial and Poisson distributions, but gives no resolution of the conjecture.

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Primary source

Peter Harremoës and Gábor Tusnády, “Information Divergence is more chi squared distributed than the chi squared statistics”, arXiv:1202.1125 (2012).

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