A Characterization of Guesswork on Swiftly Tilting Curves

© 1963-2012 IEEE. Given a collection of strings, each with an associated probability of occurrence, the guesswork of each of them is their position in a list ordered from most likely to least likely, breaking ties arbitrarily. The guesswork is central to several applications in information theory: a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beirami, Ahmad, Calderbank, Robert, Christiansen, Mark M, Duffy, Ken R, Medard, Muriel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135856