Iterating von Neumann's procedure for extracting random bits

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176348543MaRDI QIDQ1192995zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yuval Peres

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176348543

zbMATH Keywords

exchangeabilityexchangeable processesKeane-Smorodinsky finitary codesnumber of unbiased bitsrandom biased bits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Exchangeability for stochastic processes (60G09)

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