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Categories: Complex systems theory, All articles needing additional references, Statistical randomness, Information theory, Estimation theory

information selective information entropy information entropy average information

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome WordNet 3.0

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(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In information theory, the entropy of a random variable is the average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty" inherent to the variable's possible outcomes. Wikipedia

Expected value of the amount of information delivered by a message Wikidata

A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal. Wiktionary

Measure of the amount of information in a signal. Wiktionary (translation)

The signal contained thousands of bits of information WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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Shannon

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information

OPPOSITE OF

negentropy

RECOMMENDED UNIT OF MEASUREMENT

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

information, selective information, entropy

Wikipedia

entropy (information theory)

Wikidata

information entropy

Wiktionary

entropy

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average information, Data compression/entropy, Data entropy, Entropy (information), Entropy function, Entropy of a probability distribution, information (statistics), Information Theoretic Entropy, Informational entropy, Infotropy, Shannon's entropy, Shannon entropy, Shannon information entropy, Weighted entropy

Wikidata Alias

average information content, entropy, negentropy, Shannon entropy