Elements of Information Theory

Konrad Jacobs
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Konrad Jacobs: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Mathematisches Institut

Chapter VII in Discrete Stochastics, 1992, pp 155-183 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Information theory deals with the quantitative aspects of storage and transmission of messages. Some of these aspects involve the inner structure of messages: the grammar of their language, the acoustic spectrum of their sound etc. We will not enter into questions of this kind. For us here, messages are elements of a set, and when we handle them, our sole concern is to keep distinct messages distinct, i.e. to make the mappings resulting from our manipulations injective (= one-to-one). Aiming at this, we face two obstacles: lack of capacity of storage or transmission proceduresnoise, i.e. distortion of messages during transmission.

Keywords: Word Length; Linear Code; Probability Vector; Code Word; Stochastic Matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8645-1_7

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