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Entropy is an example of a physical concept that has found a new life in the engineering and computing sciences. This chapter concentrates on the aspects involving tree structures, namely source coding and the generation of discrete random variables from random numbers.
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Brémaud, P. (2017). Coding Trees. In: Discrete Probability Models and Methods. Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43476-6_11
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