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  • x - input sequence
  • n - length of x
  • x = x 1 x 2 ... x n , x i j = x i x i + 1 ... x j
  • α - discrete alphabet
  • r - cardinality of α
  • n x ( a ) - the number of times that a α appears in x
  • P x ( a ) - empirical probability
  • Q - the true i.i.d. distribution of x
  • H - entropy
  • D ( · · ) - divergence
  • · - rounding up
  • R - rate of source code
  • T Q ( δ ) - set of inputs that are δ -typical with respect to (w.r.t.) Q
  • C - a code
  • ( · ) C - complement of set
  • · T - transpose of vector or matrix
  • l ( x ) - length of code in bits
  • x ' = S x - step n Z , x n ' = x n + 1
  • θ - parameters of parametric source (can contain multiple scalar parameters)
  • M - number of states of unifilar source
  • S = { 1 , ... , M } - states of unifilar source
  • s 1 , ... , s n , - state sequence
  • q ( s | s ' ) - transition probability
  • S t = g ( S t - 1 , X t - 1 ) - next state function
  • Λ - class of parametric models
  • c n - collection of lossless codes for length- n inputs
  • I ( · ; · ) - mutual information
  • r n ( l , θ ) - how far a coding length function l is from the entropy
  • h 2 ( · ) - binary entropy
  • I ( · ) - Fisher information
  • J ( · ) - Jeffreys' prior
  • θ M L - maximum likelihood parameter
  • R n - , R n + - min-max and max-min redundancy
  • T - set of leaves of a context tree source
  • s - state of context tree
  • n x ( s , a ) - number of times that a α appears in context s in x
  • T * - optimal context tree source
  • D - maximal depth of tree source
  • T s * - optimal tree structure to encode symbols whose context ends with s
  • MDL ( s ) - minimum description length required for encoding these symbols
  • KT ( · , · ) - Krichevsky-Trofimov coding length
  • ( y , i ) - BWT output consisting the permuted sequence and index
  • x ˆ - approximate version of x
  • α ˆ - reproduction alphabet
  • d ( · , · ) - distortion metric
  • d ¯ ( x , x ˆ ) - distortion between sequences
  • D - distortion level
  • R ( D ) - minimal rate such that x ˆ can be described
  • t - temperature in simulated annealing
  • Z t - normalization factor in Boltzmann pmf
  • N r - recurrence time

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Source:  OpenStax, Universal algorithms in signal processing and communications. OpenStax CNX. May 16, 2013 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11524/1.1
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