An Inequality on Guessing and its Application to Sequential Decoding - Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on

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  • Erdal Arikan
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Let (X, Y) be a pair of discrete random variables with X taking one of M possible values. Suppose the value of X is to be determined, given the value of Y, by asking questions of the form “Is X equal to z?” until the answer is “Yes.” Let G(z 1 y) denote the number of guesses in any such guessing scheme when X = x, Y = y. We prove that

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تاریخ انتشار 2004