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Previous chapters discuss the main classes of compression methods: RLE, statistical methods, and dictionary-based methods. There are data compression methods that are not easy to classify and do not clearly belong in any of the classes discussed so far. A few such methods are described here.

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Salomon, D. (1998). Other Methods. In: Data Compression. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2939-9_5

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