A near-optimal algorithm for computing the entropy of a stream

Amit Chakrabarti, Graham Cormode, Andrew McGregor. A near-optimal algorithm for computing the entropy of a stream. In Nikhil Bansal, Kirk Pruhs, Clifford Stein, editors, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 7-9, 2007. pages 328-335, SIAM, 2007. [doi]

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  title = {A near-optimal algorithm for computing the entropy of a stream},
  author = {Amit Chakrabarti and Graham Cormode and Andrew McGregor},
  year = {2007},
  doi = {10.1145/1283383.1283418},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1283383.1283418},
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  pages = {328-335},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 7-9, 2007},
  editor = {Nikhil Bansal and Kirk Pruhs and Clifford Stein},
  publisher = {SIAM},
  isbn = {978-0-898716-24-5},
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