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The aim of this chapter is to introduce the entropy function, which measures the amount of information emitted by a source. We shall examine the basic properties of this function, and show how it is related to the average word- lengths of encodings of the source.
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Jones, G.A., Mary Jones, J. (2000). Entropy. In: Information and Coding Theory. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0361-5_3
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