The lectures of this course are based on the first 11 chapters of Prof. Raymond Yeung’s textbook entitled Information Theory and Network Coding (Springer 2008). This book and its predecessor, A First Course in Information Theory (Kluwer 2002, essentially the first edition of the 2008 book), have been adopted by over 60 universities around the world as either a textbook or reference text.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
15 minutes to complete
Course Preliminaries
15 minutes to complete
1 video (Total 5 min), 1 reading
7 minutes to complete
Chapter 1 Information Measures
7 minutes to complete
2 videos (Total 7 min)
2 hours to complete
Chapter 2 Information Measures - Part 1
2 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 38 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Chapter 2 Information Measures - Part 2
2 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 74 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Chapter 3 The I-Measure - Part 1
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 50 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
1 hour to complete
Chapter 3 The I-Measure - Part 2
1 hour to complete
4 videos (Total 39 min)
2 hours to complete
Chapter 4 Zero-Error Data Compression - Part 1
2 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 34 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
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by KRMar 30, 2020
Very helpful in learning theorems about information theory
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