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<p>In <a href="Information_theory" title="Information theory">information theory</a>, an <b>entropy coding</b> (or <b>entropy encoding</b>) is any lossless data compression method that attempts to approach the lower bound declared by <a href="Claude_Shannon" title="Claude Shannon">Shannon's</a> <a href="Source_coding_theorem" class="mw-redirect" title="Source coding theorem">source coding theorem</a>, which states that any lossless data compression method must have an expected code length greater than or equal to the entropy of the source.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>More precisely, the source coding theorem states that for any source distribution, the expected code length satisfies <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \operatorname {E} _{x\sim P}[\ell (d(x))]\geq \operatorname {E} _{x\sim P}[-\log _{b}(P(x))]}">
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</p><p>Two of the most common entropy coding techniques are <a href="Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman coding</a> and <a href="Arithmetic_coding" title="Arithmetic coding">arithmetic coding</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Huffman_1952_pp._1098–1101_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huffman_1952_pp._1098–1101-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
If the approximate entropy characteristics of a data stream are known in advance (especially for <a href="Signal_compression" title="Signal compression">signal compression</a>), a simpler static code may be useful.
These static codes include <a href="Universal_code_(data_compression)" title="Universal code (data compression)">universal codes</a> (such as <a href="Elias_gamma_coding" title="Elias gamma coding">Elias gamma coding</a> or <a href="Fibonacci_coding" title="Fibonacci coding">Fibonacci coding</a>) and <a href="Golomb_coding" title="Golomb coding">Golomb codes</a> (such as <a href="Unary_coding" title="Unary coding">unary coding</a> or <a href="Rice_coding" class="mw-redirect" title="Rice coding">Rice coding</a>).
</p><p>Since 2014, data compressors have started using the <a href="Asymmetric_numeral_systems" title="Asymmetric numeral systems">asymmetric numeral systems</a> family of entropy coding techniques, which allows combination of the compression ratio of <a href="Arithmetic_coding" title="Arithmetic coding">arithmetic coding</a> with a processing cost similar to <a href="Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman coding</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Entropy_as_a_measure_of_similarity">Entropy as a measure of similarity</h2></div>
<p>Besides using entropy coding as a way to compress digital data, an entropy encoder can also be used to measure the amount of <a href="Similarity_measure" title="Similarity measure">similarity</a> between <a href="Data_stream" title="Data stream">streams of data</a> and already existing classes of data. This is done by generating an entropy coder/compressor for each class of data; unknown data is then <a href="Statistical_classification" title="Statistical classification">classified</a> by feeding the uncompressed data to each compressor and seeing which compressor yields the highest compression. The coder with the best compression is probably the coder trained on the data that was most similar to the unknown data.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Arithmetic_coding" title="Arithmetic coding">Arithmetic coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Asymmetric_numeral_systems" title="Asymmetric numeral systems">Asymmetric numeral systems</a> (ANS)</li>
<li><a href="Context-adaptive_binary_arithmetic_coding" title="Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding">Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding</a> (CABAC)</li>
<li><a href="Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Range_coding" title="Range coding">Range coding</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html">Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms</a></i>, by <a href="David_MacKay_(scientist)" class="mw-redirect" title="David MacKay (scientist)">David MacKay</a> (2003), gives an introduction to Shannon theory and data compression, including the <a href="Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman coding</a> and <a href="Arithmetic_coding" title="Arithmetic coding">arithmetic coding</a>.</li>
<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://iphome.hhi.de/wiegand/assets/pdfs/VBpart1.pdf">Source Coding</a>,</i> by <a href="Thomas_Wiegand" title="Thomas Wiegand">T. Wiegand</a> and H. Schwarz (2011).</li></ul>
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</style><div id="Data_compression_methods241" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Data_compression" title="Data compression">Data compression</a> methods</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Lossless_compression" title="Lossless compression">Lossless</a><br>type</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_coding" title="Adaptive coding">Adaptive coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Arithmetic_coding" title="Arithmetic coding">Arithmetic</a></li>
<li><a href="Asymmetric_numeral_systems" title="Asymmetric numeral systems">Asymmetric numeral systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Golomb_coding" title="Golomb coding">Golomb</a></li>
<li><a href="Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman</a>
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_Huffman_coding" title="Adaptive Huffman coding">Adaptive</a></li>
<li><a href="Canonical_Huffman_code" title="Canonical Huffman code">Canonical</a></li>
<li><a href="Modified_Huffman_coding" title="Modified Huffman coding">Modified</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Range_coding" title="Range coding">Range</a></li>
<li><a href="Shannon_coding" title="Shannon coding">Shannon</a></li>
<li><a href="Shannon%E2%80%93Fano_coding" title="Shannon–Fano coding">Shannon–Fano</a></li>
<li><a href="Shannon%E2%80%93Fano%E2%80%93Elias_coding" title="Shannon–Fano–Elias coding">Shannon–Fano–Elias</a></li>
<li><a href="Tunstall_coding" title="Tunstall coding">Tunstall</a></li>
<li><a href="Unary_coding" title="Unary coding">Unary</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_code_(data_compression)" title="Universal code (data compression)">Universal</a>
<ul><li><a href="Exponential-Golomb_coding" title="Exponential-Golomb coding">Exp-Golomb</a></li>
<li><a href="Fibonacci_coding" title="Fibonacci coding">Fibonacci</a></li>
<li><a href="Elias_gamma_coding" title="Elias gamma coding">Gamma</a></li>
<li><a href="Levenshtein_coding" title="Levenshtein coding">Levenshtein</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Dictionary_coder" title="Dictionary coder">Dictionary</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Byte-pair_encoding" title="Byte-pair encoding">Byte-pair encoding</a></li>
<li><a href="LZ77_and_LZ78" title="LZ77 and LZ78">Lempel–Ziv</a>
<ul><li><a href="842_(compression_algorithm)" title="842 (compression algorithm)">842</a></li>
<li><a href="LZ4_(compression_algorithm)" title="LZ4 (compression algorithm)">LZ4</a></li>
<li><a href="LZJB" class="mw-redirect" title="LZJB">LZJB</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Oberhumer" title="Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer">LZO</a></li>
<li><a href="LZRW" title="LZRW">LZRW</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Storer%E2%80%93Szymanski" title="Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski">LZSS</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Welch" title="Lempel–Ziv–Welch">LZW</a></li>
<li><a href="LZWL" title="LZWL">LZWL</a></li>
<li><a href="Snappy_(compression)" title="Snappy (compression)">Snappy</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform" title="Burrows–Wheeler transform">BWT</a></li>
<li><a href="Context_tree_weighting" title="Context tree weighting">CTW</a></li>
<li><a href="Context_mixing" title="Context mixing">CM</a></li>
<li><a href="Delta_encoding" title="Delta encoding">Delta</a>
<ul><li><a href="Incremental_encoding" title="Incremental encoding">Incremental</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_Markov_compression" title="Dynamic Markov compression">DMC</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a></li>
<li><a href="Grammar-based_code" title="Grammar-based code">Grammar</a>
<ul><li><a href="Re-Pair" title="Re-Pair">Re-Pair</a></li>
<li><a href="Sequitur_algorithm" title="Sequitur algorithm">Sequitur</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">LDCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Move-to-front_transform" title="Move-to-front transform">MTF</a></li>
<li><a href="PAQ" title="PAQ">PAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="Prediction_by_partial_matching" title="Prediction by partial matching">PPM</a></li>
<li><a href="Run-length_encoding" title="Run-length encoding">RLE</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hybrid</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>LZ77 + Huffman
<ul><li><a href="Deflate" title="Deflate">Deflate</a></li>
<li><a href="LZX" title="LZX">LZX</a></li>
<li><a href="Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Stac" title="Lempel–Ziv–Stac">LZS</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + ANS
<ul><li><a href="LZFSE" title="LZFSE">LZFSE</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + Huffman + ANS
<ul><li><a href="Zstd" title="Zstd">Zstandard</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + Huffman + context
<ul><li><a href="Brotli" title="Brotli">Brotli</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZSS + Huffman
<ul><li><a href="LHA_(file_format)" title="LHA (file format)">LHA/LZH</a></li></ul></li>
<li>LZ77 + Range
<ul><li><a href="LZMA" title="LZMA">LZMA</a></li>
<li>LZHAM</li></ul></li>
<li>RLE + BWT + MTF + Huffman
<ul><li><a href="Bzip2" title="Bzip2">bzip2</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Lossy_compression" title="Lossy compression">Lossy</a><br>type</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Transform_coding" title="Transform coding">Transform</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">Discrete cosine transform</a>
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">DCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Modified_discrete_cosine_transform" title="Modified discrete cosine transform">MDCT</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_sine_transform" title="Discrete sine transform">DST</a></li>
<li><a href="Fast_Fourier_transform" title="Fast Fourier transform">FFT</a></li>
<li><a href="Wavelet_transform" title="Wavelet transform">Wavelet</a>
<ul><li><a href="Daubechies_wavelet" title="Daubechies wavelet">Daubechies</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_wavelet_transform" title="Discrete wavelet transform">DWT</a></li>
<li><a href="Set_partitioning_in_hierarchical_trees" title="Set partitioning in hierarchical trees">SPIHT</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Predictive</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a>
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation">ADPCM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Linear_predictive_coding" title="Linear predictive coding">LPC</a>
<ul><li><a href="Algebraic_code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Algebraic code-excited linear prediction">ACELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Code-excited linear prediction">CELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Log_area_ratio" title="Log area ratio">LAR</a></li>
<li><a href="Line_spectral_pairs" title="Line spectral pairs">LSP</a></li>
<li><a href="Warped_linear_predictive_coding" title="Warped linear predictive coding">WLPC</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Motion
<ul><li><a href="Motion_compensation" title="Motion compensation">Compensation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_estimation" title="Motion estimation">Estimation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_vector" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion vector">Vector</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Psychoacoustics" title="Psychoacoustics">Psychoacoustic</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Data_compression#Audio" title="Data compression">Audio</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bit_rate" title="Bit rate">Bit rate</a>
<ul><li><a href="Average_bitrate" title="Average bitrate">ABR</a></li>
<li><a href="Constant_bitrate" title="Constant bitrate">CBR</a></li>
<li><a href="Variable_bitrate" title="Variable bitrate">VBR</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Companding" title="Companding">Companding</a></li>
<li><a href="Convolution" title="Convolution">Convolution</a></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_range" title="Dynamic range">Dynamic range</a></li>
<li><a href="Latency_(audio)" title="Latency (audio)">Latency</a></li>
<li><a href="Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem" title="Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem">Nyquist–Shannon theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Sampling_(signal_processing)" title="Sampling (signal processing)">Sampling</a></li>
<li><a href="Silence_compression" title="Silence compression">Silence compression</a></li>
<li><a href="Sound_quality" title="Sound quality">Sound quality</a></li>
<li><a href="Speech_coding" title="Speech coding">Speech coding</a></li>
<li><a href="Sub-band_coding" title="Sub-band coding">Sub-band coding</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Audio_codec" title="Audio codec">Codec</a><br>parts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="A-law_algorithm" title="A-law algorithm">A-law</a></li>
<li><a href="%CE%9C-law_algorithm" title="Μ-law algorithm">μ-law</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a>
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation">ADPCM</a></li>
<li><a href="Delta_modulation" title="Delta modulation">DM</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Fourier_transform" title="Fourier transform">FT</a>
<ul><li><a href="Fast_Fourier_transform" title="Fast Fourier transform">FFT</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Linear_predictive_coding" title="Linear predictive coding">LPC</a>
<ul><li><a href="Algebraic_code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Algebraic code-excited linear prediction">ACELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Code-excited_linear_prediction" title="Code-excited linear prediction">CELP</a></li>
<li><a href="Log_area_ratio" title="Log area ratio">LAR</a></li>
<li><a href="Line_spectral_pairs" title="Line spectral pairs">LSP</a></li>
<li><a href="Warped_linear_predictive_coding" title="Warped linear predictive coding">WLPC</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Modified_discrete_cosine_transform" title="Modified discrete cosine transform">MDCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Psychoacoustics" title="Psychoacoustics">Psychoacoustic model</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Image_compression" title="Image compression">Image</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Chroma_subsampling" title="Chroma subsampling">Chroma subsampling</a></li>
<li><a href="Coding_tree_unit" title="Coding tree unit">Coding tree unit</a></li>
<li><a href="Color_space" title="Color space">Color space</a></li>
<li><a href="Compression_artifact" title="Compression artifact">Compression artifact</a></li>
<li><a href="Image_resolution" title="Image resolution">Image resolution</a></li>
<li><a href="Macroblock" title="Macroblock">Macroblock</a></li>
<li><a href="Pixel" title="Pixel">Pixel</a></li>
<li><a href="Peak_signal-to-noise_ratio" title="Peak signal-to-noise ratio">PSNR</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantization_(image_processing)" title="Quantization (image processing)">Quantization</a></li>
<li><a href="Standard_test_image" title="Standard test image">Standard test image</a></li>
<li><a href="Texture_compression" title="Texture compression">Texture compression</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Methods</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Chain_code" title="Chain code">Chain code</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">DCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Deflate" title="Deflate">Deflate</a></li>
<li><a href="Fractal_compression" title="Fractal compression">Fractal</a></li>
<li><a href="Karhunen%E2%80%93Lo%C3%A8ve_theorem" class="mw-redirect" title="Karhunen–Loève theorem">KLT</a></li>
<li><a href="Pyramid_(image_processing)" title="Pyramid (image processing)">LP</a></li>
<li><a href="Run-length_encoding" title="Run-length encoding">RLE</a></li>
<li><a href="Wavelet_transform" title="Wavelet transform">Wavelet</a>
<ul><li><a href="Daubechies_wavelet" title="Daubechies wavelet">Daubechies</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_wavelet_transform" title="Discrete wavelet transform">DWT</a></li>
<li><a href="Embedded_zerotrees_of_wavelet_transforms" title="Embedded zerotrees of wavelet transforms">EZW</a></li>
<li><a href="Set_partitioning_in_hierarchical_trees" title="Set partitioning in hierarchical trees">SPIHT</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Data_compression#Video" title="Data compression">Video</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bit_rate" title="Bit rate">Bit rate</a>
<ul><li><a href="Average_bitrate" title="Average bitrate">ABR</a></li>
<li><a href="Constant_bitrate" title="Constant bitrate">CBR</a></li>
<li><a href="Variable_bitrate" title="Variable bitrate">VBR</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Display_resolution" title="Display resolution">Display resolution</a></li>
<li><a href="Film_frame" title="Film frame">Frame</a></li>
<li><a href="Frame_rate" title="Frame rate">Frame rate</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_compression_picture_types" title="Video compression picture types">Frame types</a></li>
<li><a href="Interlaced_video" title="Interlaced video">Interlace</a></li>
<li><a href="Video#Characteristics_of_video_streams" title="Video">Video characteristics</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_quality" title="Video quality">Video quality</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Video_codec" title="Video codec">Codec</a><br>parts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_cosine_transform" title="Discrete cosine transform">DCT</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_pulse-code_modulation" title="Differential pulse-code modulation">DPCM</a></li>
<li><a href="Deblocking_filter" title="Deblocking filter">Deblocking filter</a></li>
<li><a href="Lapped_transform" title="Lapped transform">Lapped transform</a></li>
<li>Motion
<ul><li><a href="Motion_compensation" title="Motion compensation">Compensation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_estimation" title="Motion estimation">Estimation</a></li>
<li><a href="Motion_vector" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion vector">Vector</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Wavelet_transform" title="Wavelet transform">Wavelet</a>
<ul><li><a href="Daubechies_wavelet" title="Daubechies wavelet">Daubechies</a></li>
<li><a href="Discrete_wavelet_transform" title="Discrete wavelet transform">DWT</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Information_theory" title="Information theory">Theory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Compressed_data_structure" title="Compressed data structure">Compressed data structures</a>
<ul><li><a href="Compressed_suffix_array" title="Compressed suffix array">Compressed suffix array</a></li>
<li><a href="FM-index" title="FM-index">FM-index</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Entropy_(information_theory)" title="Entropy (information theory)">Entropy</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_theory" title="Information theory">Information theory</a>
<ul><li><a href="Timeline_of_information_theory" title="Timeline of information theory">Timeline</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Kolmogorov_complexity" title="Kolmogorov complexity">Kolmogorov complexity</a></li>
<li><a href="Prefix_code" title="Prefix code">Prefix code</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantization_(signal_processing)" title="Quantization (signal processing)">Quantization</a></li>
<li><a href="Rate%E2%80%93distortion_theory" title="Rate–distortion theory">Rate–distortion</a></li>
<li><a href="Redundancy_(information_theory)" title="Redundancy (information theory)">Redundancy</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_compression_symmetry" title="Data compression symmetry">Symmetry</a></li>
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