In information theory, the entropy of a random variable quantifies the average level of uncertainty or information associated with the variable's potential...
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k_{B}} is the Boltzmann constant. The defining expression for entropy in the theory of information established by Claude E. Shannon in 1948 is of the form:...
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In information theory, the conditional entropy quantifies the amount of information needed to describe the outcome of a random variable Y {\displaystyle...
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In information theory, the Rényi entropy is a quantity that generalizes various notions of entropy, including Hartley entropy, Shannon entropy, collision...
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in information theory are mutual information, channel capacity, error exponents, and relative entropy. Important sub-fields of information theory include...
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In the mathematical theory of probability, the entropy rate or source information rate is a function assigning an entropy to a stochastic process. For...
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In information theory, joint entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a set of variables. The joint Shannon entropy (in bits) of two discrete...
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using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both the technical definition in terms of Von Neumann entropy and the general...
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Negentropy (redirect from Negative entropy)
In information theory and statistics, negentropy is used as a measure of distance to normality. The concept and phrase "negative entropy" was introduced...
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arguing that the entropy of statistical mechanics and the information entropy of information theory are the same concept. Consequently, statistical mechanics...
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Differential entropy (also referred to as continuous entropy) is a concept in information theory that began as an attempt by Claude Shannon to extend...
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In statistics and information theory, a maximum entropy probability distribution has entropy that is at least as great as that of all other members of...
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inference techniques rooted in Shannon information theory, Bayesian probability, and the principle of maximum entropy. These techniques are relevant to any...
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message source Differential entropy, a generalization of Entropy (information theory) to continuous random variables Entropy of entanglement, related to...
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concept of mutual information is intimately linked to that of entropy of a random variable, a fundamental notion in information theory that quantifies the...
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In information theory, the entropy power inequality (EPI) is a result that relates to so-called "entropy power" of random variables. It shows that the...
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In information theory, the binary entropy function, denoted H ( p ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {H} (p)} or H b ( p ) {\displaystyle \operatorname...
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Entropic gravity, also known as emergent gravity, is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force—a force with macro-scale homogeneity...
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In information theory, an entropy coding (or entropy encoding) is any lossless data compression method that attempts to approach the lower bound declared...
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Kullback–Leibler divergence (redirect from Kullback–Leibler entropy)
distance Information gain in decision trees Information gain ratio Information theory and measure theory Jensen–Shannon divergence Quantum relative entropy Solomon...
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In information theory, information dimension is an information measure for random vectors in Euclidean space, based on the normalized entropy of finely...
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In statistical mechanics, entropy is formulated as a statistical property using probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective was introduced...
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entropy is an entropy measure used in quantum information theory. It is a generalization of the conditional entropy of classical information theory....
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In quantum information theory, quantum relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability between two quantum states. It is the quantum mechanical analog...
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coined the term entropy. Since the mid-20th century the concept of entropy has found application in the field of information theory, describing an analogous...
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December 2018). "Measuring Integrated Information: Comparison of Candidate Measures in Theory and Simulation". Entropy. 21 (1): 17. arXiv:1806.09373. Bibcode:2018Entrp...
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(1998). "On characterization of entropy function via information inequalities". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 44 (4): 1440–1452. doi:10.1109/18...
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uncertainty) entropy encoding entropy (information theory) Fisher information Hick's law Huffman coding information bottleneck method information theoretic...
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In information theory, redundancy measures the fractional difference between the entropy H(X) of an ensemble X, and its maximum possible value log (...
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In information theory, the information content, self-information, surprisal, or Shannon information is a basic quantity derived from the probability of...
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