Basic concepts, identities and inequalities -- the toolkit of information theory (Q1613053)
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Basic concepts, identities and inequalities -- the toolkit of information theory (English)
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10 September 2002
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Summary: Basic concepts and results of that part of Information Theory which is often referred to as ``Shannon Theory'' are discussed focusing mainly on the discrete case. The paper is expository with some new proofs and extensions of results and concepts.
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entropy
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divergence
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mutual information
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concavity
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convexity
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data reduction
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Shannon theory
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