DocumentCode
2055247
Title
Smooth Renyi entropy and applications
Author
Renner, Renato ; Wolf, Stefan
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
fYear
2004
fDate
27 June-2 July 2004
Firstpage
233
Abstract
We introduce a new entropy measure, called smooth Renyi entropy. The measure characterizes fundamental properties of a random variable Z, such as the amount of uniform randomness that can be extracted from Z or the minimum length of an encoding of Z.
Keywords
entropy codes; encoding length; entropy measure; random variable property; smooth Renyi entropy application; Additives; Application software; Computer science; Entropy; Length measurement; Probability distribution; Random variables; Zinc;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Theory, 2004. ISIT 2004. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8280-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.2004.1365269
Filename
1365269
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