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There are two types of information sources. A combinatorial source produces a subset of words. A stochastic source can produce each word with a probability. We distinguish finite memory (Markov), zero memory (Bernoulli), stationary sources.
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Krichevsky, R. (1994). Introduction. In: Universal Compression and Retrieval. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 274. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3628-2_1
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