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Shannon's source coding theorem

In information theory, Shannon's source coding theorem (or noiseless coding theorem) establishes the statistical limits to possible data compression for data whose source is an independent identically-distributed random variable, and the operational meaning of the Shannon entropy.

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Shannon's source coding theorem

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source entropy random coding probability set theorem length variable shannon displaystyle data bits information rate possible sequence typical code minimal

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