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On the notions of ambiguity and information loss

โœ Scribed by James L. Dolby

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
783 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
8756-6079

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โœฆ Synopsis

GUITY AND INFORMATION ' I . . . i f one is concerned with messages to be transmitted, and if there is reasonable freedom in coding the message for transmission, entropy is clearly a quantity of interest and importance. But this fact makes it no easier to describe. One may find (its) description . . . to be simple, completely perspicuous, and immediately intuitive. But neither the writer nor any of his friends did." (John W . Tukey, 1963) cI1

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