Elements of Information Theory (Hardcover)

From the Publisher: Elements of Information Theory, Second Edition, covers the standard topics of information theory, such as entropy, data compression, channel capacity, rate distortion, multi-user theory and hypothesis testing. It presents applications to communications, statistics, complexity theory, and investment. Chapters 1-9 cover the asymptotic equipartition property, data compression and channel capacity culminating in the capacity of the Gaussian channel. Chapters 10-17 include rate distortion, the method of types, Kolmogorov complexity, network information theory, universal source coding and portfolio theory. | |The first edition of this book is the most successful book on Information Theory on the market today. Adoptions have remained strong since the book's publication in 1991.