Accession Number:

ADA465062

Title:

Difference of Sums Containing Products of Binomial Coefficients and Their Logarithms

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Miller, Allen R.
• Moskowitz, Ira S.

Report Date:

2005-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

Properties of the difference of two sums containing products of binomial coefficients and their logarithms which arise in the application of Shannons information theory to a certain class of covert channels are deduced. Some allied consequences of the latter are also recorded.

Descriptors:

• *MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• *COEFFICIENTS
• *BINOMIALS
• *INFORMATION THEORY
• CONFIGURATIONS
• CHANNELS
• COMPLEX VARIABLES

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability
• Operations Research
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE