Comments on "Probability estimation in arithmetic and adaptive-Huffman entropy coders".
This comment points out some omissions in the work of Duttweiler and Chazmas (see ibid., vol.4, p.237, 1995) on credit related to scaled-count estimators that perform count-scaling when the count of the less probable symbol (LPS) reaches a limiting value.
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Dept. of Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Cruz, CA.