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The method of types allows one to obtain in an elementary way, in the discrete case, two fundamental results of mathematical information theory, which in the continuous case require a rather formidable technical equipment: Sanov’s principle and the maximum entropy principle. The objects considered by this method are empirical averages, and the basic mathematical notion is that of divergence.
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Brémaud, P. (2017). The Method of Types. In: Discrete Probability Models and Methods. Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43476-6_13
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