There is no universal source code for an infinite source alphabet

DOI10.1109/18.272495zbMATH Open0802.94006OpenAlexW1971619812WikidataQ110512064 ScholiaQ110512064MaRDI QIDQ4307308FDOQ4307308

Authors: László Györfi, István Páli, Edward C. van der Meulen 

Publication date: 4 October 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/18.272495

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zbMATH Keywords

distribution estimationconsistency in information divergencediscrete infinite alphabet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Source coding (94A29)

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