Relative uniformity of sources and the comparison of optimal code costs

DOI10.1109/18.259659zbMath0799.94006OpenAlexW2111098540MaRDI QIDQ4307389

Julia Abrahams, Marc J. Lipman

Publication date: 3 October 1994

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/18.259659

zbMATH Keywords

Shannon entropyHuffman codeRényi entropyuniform sourceprobability distributions of two sources

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Prefix, length-variable, comma-free codes (94A45)

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