Timo, RoyBlackmore, KimHanlen, Leif2015-12-100018-9448http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61119A word-valued source Y = Y1,Y2,̇ ̇ ̇ is discrete random process that is formed by sequentially encoding the symbols of a random process ${\bf X} = X1,X2 ̇ ̇ ̇ with codewords from a codebook. These processes appear frequently in information theory (iKeywords: Average codeword length; Code-words; Codebooks; Entropy rates; Equipartition; Ergodic theorem; Prefix-free; Source-coding algorithm; Entropy; Random processes; Signal theory; Asymptotic analysis Asymptotic equipartition property (AEP); Asymptotically mean stationary (AMS); Ergodic theoremWord-Valued Sources: An Ergodic Theorem, an AEP, and the Conservation of Entropy201010.1109/TIT.2010.20462512016-02-24