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Course Catalog 2013-2014

MAT-63006 Information Theory, 7 cr

Additional information

Periods 3-4
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Stephane Foldes

Lessons

Study type	P1	P2	P3	P4	Summer	Implementations	Lecture times and places
Lectures Excercises			4 h/week  2 h/week	+4 h/week +2 h/week		MAT-63006 2013-01

Requirements

Final exam plus classroom activity, particulars to be announced during first lecture.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Strings and codes. Unique decipherability of variable length codes. Kraft's inequality. The Kraft-McMillan theorems. Huffman encoding. Entropy. Transmission rate and error correction rate of fixed length codes.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Introduction to Coding and Information Theory.	Roman, S.			Springer-Verlag (-96).		English
Other literature	research article/ classroom handout material						Suomi

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Correspondence of content

Course	Corresponds course	Description
MAT-63006 Information Theory, 7 cr	MAT-51216 Information Theory, 4 cr

More precise information per implementation

Implementation	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
MAT-63006 2013-01			Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified

16.01.2013