• 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