Entropy and information theory /

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Author / Creator:Gray, Robert M., 1943-
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:New York : Springer, c2011.
Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 409 p.)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8897292
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ISBN:9781441979704 (electronic bk.)
1441979700 (electronic bk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This book is an updated version of the information theory classic, first published in 1990. About one-third of the book is devoted to Shannon source and channel coding theorems; the remainder addresses sources, channels, and codes and on information and distortion measures and their properties. New in this edition: Expanded treatment of stationary or sliding-block codes and their relations to traditional block codesExpanded discussion of results from ergodic theory relevant to information theoryExpanded treatment of B-processes -- processes formed by stationary coding memoryless sourcesNew mat.