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Summary: INFORMATION MEASURES FOR SOURCES
WITH MEMORY AND THEIR
APPLICATION TO HYPOTHESIS TESTING
AND SOURCE CODING
by
Ziad Rached
A thesis submitted to the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
in conformity with the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
August 2002
Copyright c
Ziad Rached, 2002
Abstract
In this work, we investigate Shannon's and Renyi's information measure rates for
nite-alphabet time-invariant Markov sources of arbitrary order and arbitrary initial
distributions, along with their application to hypothesis testing and source coding.
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