Efficient coding in dolphin surface behavioral patterns

Complexity

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 23-25

  Ferrer I Cancho, Ramon ^a   Lusseau, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coding; Information theory; Law of brevity; Quantitative linguistics; Word length

Indexed keywords

EID: 66849101266     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20266     Document Type: Article

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