Developed by Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener in the late 1940s, information theory, or statistical communication theor
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English Pages xi, 339 pages: illustrations; 22 cm Year 1990
Table of contents :
A measure of information --
Noiseless coding --
The discrete memoryless channel --
Error correcting codes --
Further theory of error correcting codes --
Information sources --
Channels with memory --
Continuous channels --
Appendix.