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arxiv: 1802.06609 · v1 · pith:L77SGTJGnew · submitted 2018-02-19 · 💻 cs.IT · eess.SP· math.IT

On the computation of Shannon Entropy from Counting Bloom Filters

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In this short note a method for computing the naive plugin estimator of discrete entropy from a counting Bloom filter will be presented. The method does work reasonably as long as the collision probability in the bloom filter is kept low.

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