Coding Theorems for a Discrete Source With a Fidelity Criterion by Claude Shannon (1959)

By Claude Shannon.

Publication metadata: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5311476

Online text: ee.stanford.edu/~gray/itss11.pdf

Published in the Institute of Radio Engineers International Convention Record, volume 7 (1959). The introductory summary fixes a nonnegative letter-reconstruction cost and an allowed average distortion, then studies the equivalent source rate.