Universal Coding and Order Identification by Model Selection Methods

• Main Author: Gassiat, Élisabeth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Monographs in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Coding theory.; Information theory.; Statistics .; Coding and Information Theory.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

The purpose of these notes is to highlight the far-reaching connections between Information Theory and Statistics. Universal coding and adaptive compression are indeed closely related to statistical inference concerning processes and using maximum likelihood or Bayesian methods. The book is divided...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Lossless Coding
• 2.Universal Coding on Finite Alphabets
• 3.Universal Coding on Infinite Alphabets
• 4.Model Order Estimation
• Notation
• Index.