• Title of article

    Generating probabilities with a specified entropy

  • Author/Authors

    Swaszek، نويسنده , , Peter F and Wali، نويسنده , , Sidharth، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    97
  • To page
    103
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a method to randomly generate vectors of symbol probabilities so that the corresponding discrete memoryless source has a prescribed entropy. One application is to Monte Carlo simulation of the performance of noiseless variable length source coding.
  • Keywords
    Entropy coding , Monte Carlo simulation
  • Journal title
    Journal of the Franklin Institute
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    Journal of the Franklin Institute
  • Record number

    1542375