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Empirical entropy in context

Information Theory 2007-08-16 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We trace the history of empirical entropy, touching briefly on its relation to Markov processes, normal numbers, Shannon entropy, the Chomsky hierarchy, Kolmogorov complexity, Ziv-Lempel compression, de Bruijn sequences and stochastic complexity.

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@article{arxiv.0708.2084,
  title  = {Empirical entropy in context},
  author = {Travis Gagie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.2084},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

A survey of some results related to empirical entropy, written in the spring of 2007 as part of an introduction to a PhD thesis

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