DocumentCode
2486377
Title
Asymptotics of the Shannon and Renyi entropies for sums of independent random variables
Author
D´yachkov, A.G. ; Vilenkin, Pavel A.
Author_Institution
Fac. of Mech. & Math., Moscow State Univ., Russia
fYear
1998
fDate
16-21 Aug 1998
Firstpage
376
Abstract
With the help of the local limit theorem we investigate the asymptotics of the Shannon and Renyi (1961) entropies for sums of independent identically distributed random variables
Keywords
entropy; random processes; Renyi entropy; Shannon entropy; asymptotics; i.i.d. random variables; independent identically distributed random variables; local limit theorem; Chebyshev approximation; Decoding; Entropy; Mathematics; Microelectronics; Polynomials; Random variables;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5000-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.1998.708981
Filename
708981
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