About: Entropy
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| Name: | Entropy |
| ID: | m0070 |
| Language: | English (en) |
| Summary: | Shannon showed the power of probabilistic models for symbolic-valued signals. The dey quantity that characterizes such a signal is the entropy of its alphabet. |
| Subject: | Science and Technology |
| Keywords: | communication theory, compression, digital communication, digital sources, entropy, information communication, Shannon |
| Document Type: | -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN |
| License: | Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 1.0) |
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| Authors: | Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu) |
| Copyright Holders: | Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu) |
| Maintainers: | Indra Datta (kashent@alumni.rice.edu), CJ Ganier (seejaie@rice.edu), Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu), John Cottrell (jac3@rice.edu) |
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| Version: | 2.13 (history) |
| Created: | Jul 27, 2000 12:00 am GMT-5 |
| Revised: | Apr 15, 2005 11:36 am GMT-5 |
Version History
| Version: | 2.13 Apr 15, 2005 11:36 am GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom |
| Changes: | update to cnxml-0.5, update Pr csymbol, add equation tag |
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| Version: | 2.12 Aug 18, 2004 12:06 pm GMT-5 by Adan Galvan |
| Changes: | changed subscripts |
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| Version: | 2.11 Nov 30, 2003 9:15 pm US/Central by Don Johnson |
| Changes: | Fixed a math markup error in solution to exercise. |
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| Version: | 2.10 Aug 17, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | Fixed important math display errors. |
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| Version: | 2.9 Aug 13, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | Upgraded to 0.4. |
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| Version: | 2.8 Aug 5, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | Fixed minor math error. |
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| Version: | 2.7 Apr 29, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | fixed summation markup on problem solution, wrapped msub in ci, changed mi tag surrounding numbers to mn tag |
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| Version: | 2.6 Sep 11, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by Brent Hendricks |
| Changes: | Converted to CNXML 0.3.5 |
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| Version: | 2.5 Aug 23, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | - Revert wide equation change |
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| Version: | 2.4 Aug 23, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | The equation in the example is too wide, so change it. |
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| Version: | 2.3 Aug 22, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | correct a minor error in equation. |
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| Version: | 2.2 Jul 17, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | added keywords made John Cottrell a maintainer fixed minor errors |
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| Version: | 2.1 Jun 5, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown) |
| Changes: | Updated from .2 to .3 CNXML and to content MathML |
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| Version: | 2.0 Jul 27, 2000 12:00 am GMT-5 by Brent Hendricks |
| Changes: | Bumped version to 2.0 |
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