Generating probabilities with a specified entropy

DOI10.1016/S0016-0032(00)00010-7MaRDI QIDQ5950720zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter F. Swaszek, Sidharth Wali

Publication date 13 December 2001

Published in Journal of the Franklin Institute (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-0032(00)00010-7

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationentropy codingrandom vector generationvariable length source coding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Source coding (94A29)

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