• DocumentCode
    1950439
  • Title

    Huffman-type codes for infinite source distributions

  • Author

    Abrahams, Julia

  • Author_Institution
    Math. Sci. Div., Naval Res. Office, Arlington, VA, USA
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    29-31 Mar 1994
  • Firstpage
    83
  • Lastpage
    89
  • Abstract
    A new sufficient condition is given for an infinite source distribution to share a minimum average codeword length code with a geometric distribution. Thus some new examples of parametric families of infinite source distributions can be optimally encoded by Huffman-type codes
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; encoding; Huffman-type codes; geometric distribution; infinite source distributions; minimum average codeword length code; optimal encoding; parametric families; sufficient condition; Argon; Government; Operations research; Probability; Protection; Search problems; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Sufficient conditions; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Data Compression Conference, 1994. DCC '94. Proceedings
  • Conference_Location
    Snowbird, UT
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-5637-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DCC.1994.305915
  • Filename
    305915
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1950439