A geometric characterization of maximum Rényi entropy distributions

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1822-1826

  Vignat, Christophe ^a   Hero, Alfred O ^b   Costa, José A ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ENTROPY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 39049109624     PISSN: 21578101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIT.2006.261749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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