Information source (mathematics)
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Information source (mathematics)
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In mathematics, an information source is a sequence of random variables ranging over a finite alphabet Γ, having a stationary distribution. The uncertainty, or entropy rate, of an information source is defined as where is the sequence of random variables defining the information source, and is the conditional information entropy of the sequence of random variables. Equivalently, one has
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