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1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) |
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Mathematics in science and engineering ; v. 115 |
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Mathematics in science and engineering ; v. 115.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; On Measures of Information and Their Characterizations; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 0. Introduction. Entropy of a Single Event. Functional Equations; 0.1 Introduction, History; 0.2 Entropy of One Event; 0.3 The Cauchy Functional Equation and Related Equations; 0.4 Completely Additive Number Theoretical Functions; Chapter 1. Shannon's Measure of Information; 1.1 Shannon's Entropy; 1.2 Algebraic Properties of the Shannon Entropy; 1.3 Analytic Properties of the Shannon Entropy. Inequalities |
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1.4 Some Simple Examples of Applications of Entropies to Logical Games and Coding1.5 Coding; 1.6 Optimal Coding and Entropy; Chapter 2. Some Desirable Properties of Entropies and Their Correlations. The Hincin and Faddeev Characterizations of Shannon's Entropy; 2.1 A List of Desiderata for Entropies; 2.2 Generalized Representations; 2.3 Correlations and Simple Consequences of the Desiderata; 2.4 The Shannon-Hincin and the Faddeev Characterizations of the Shannon Entropy; Chapter 3. The Fundamental Equation of Information; 3.1 Information Functions |
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3.2 Information Functions Continuous at the Origin-Entropies Which Are Small for Small Probabilities3.3 Nonnegative Bounded Information Functions and Entropies; 3.4 Measurable Information Functions and Entropies; 3.5 The General Solution of the Fundamental Equation of Information; Chapter 4. Further Characterizations of tbe Shannon Entropy; 4.1 The Branching Property; 4.2 Entropies with the Sum Property; 4.3 Characterization of the Shannon Entropy by the Shannon Inequality; 4.4 Subadditive Additive Entropies; Chapter 5. Rényi Entropies; 5.1 Entropies and Mean Values |
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5.2 Equality of Average Probabilities. Additivity of Average Entropies5.3 Rényi Entropies for Possibly Incomplete Distributions; 5.4 Optimal Coding and Rényi Entropies; 5.5 Characterization of ß-Averages; Chapter 6. Generalized Information Functions; 6.1 Relative Information; 6.2 Information Functions of Degree a; 6.3 Generalized Entropies; Chapter 7. Further Measures of Information; 7.1 Further Entropies. Other Measures of Information Derived Algebraically from Entropies; 7.2 Further Measures of Information Depending on Two Probability Distributions |
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7.3 Some Measures of Information Depending on Three DistributionsReferences; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
On measures of information and their characterizations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Entropy (Information theory)
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REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
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Entropy (Information theory)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Daróczy, Zoltán.
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| ISBN |
9780120437603 |
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0120437600 |
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9780080956244 |
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0080956246 |
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