Generating probabilities with a specified entropy

Authors

Peter F. Swaszek, University of Rhode Island
Sidharth Wali, Texas Instruments

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-2000

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 Carlo simulation of the performance of noiseless variable length source coding.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volume

337

Issue

2

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Swaszek, Peter F., and Sidharth Wali. "Generating probabilities with a specified entropy." Journal of the Franklin Institute 337, 2 (2000): 97-103. doi: 10.1016/S0016-0032(00)00010-7.