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Type of set in information theory

In information theory, the typical set is a set of sequences whose probability is approximately, where is the entropy of the source and is the sequence length. That this set has total probability close to one is a consequence of the asymptotic equipartition property (AEP) which is a kind of law of large numbers. The notion of typicality is only concerned with the probability of a sequence and not the actual sequence itself. Wikipedia →

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