The Heisenberg uncertainty relation is expressed in terms of the Tsall
is entropies associated with the conjugate coordinate and momentum pro
bability densities. By rewriting this in terms of a positive joint pro
bability distribution suggested by Cohen and coworkers, a different in
sight into the statistical dependence of the quantum variables is obta
ined. A discussion of how this improves the previous results on this s
ubject is given.