Generating probabilities with a specified entropy

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

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