Information theory : a tutorial introduction /

Stone, James V.

Information theory : a tutorial introduction / James V. Stone. - Sebtel Press, 2022. - 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is information? -- Entropy of discrete variables -- Source coding theorem -- Noisy channel coding theorem -- Entropy of continuous variables -- Mutual information: continuous -- Channel capacity: continuous -- Thermodynamic entropy and information -- Information as Nature's currency -- Further reading -- A. Glossary -- B. Mathematical symbols -- C. Logarithms -- D. Probability density functions -- E. Averages from distributions -- F. The rules of probability -- G. The Gaussian distribution -- H. Key equations.

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Information theory.

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