On the Randomness of Independent Experiments

Thomas Holenstein and Renato Renner

Aug 2006, Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IT/0608007.

Given a probability distribution P, what is the minimum amount of bits needed to store a value x sampled according to P, such that x can later be recovered (except with some small probability)? Or, what is the maximum amount of uniform randomness that can be extracted from x? Answering these and similar information-theoretic questions typically boils down to computing so-called smooth entropies. In this paper, we derive explicit and almost tight bounds on the smooth entropies of n-fold product distributions.

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@misc{HolRen06,
    author       = {Thomas Holenstein and Renato Renner},
    title        = {On the Randomness of Independent Experiments},
    year         = 2006,
    month        = 8,
    note         = {Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IT/0608007},
}

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