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On some applications of dynamic programming to information theory

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The technique of dynamic programming is employed to find the number of subevents into which each event of a finite generalised probability scheme should be divided so as to optimize the expressions for entropies given by Shannon, Renyi and the author. Attention is drawn to a new class of non-linear integer programming problems which arise during the course of the discussion.

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    J. N. Kapur F.A.Sc.

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Kapur, J.N. On some applications of dynamic programming to information theory. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 67, 1–11 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03049928

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