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Information content

In information theory, the information content, self-information, surprisal, or Shannon information is a basic quantity derived from the probability of a particular event occurring from a random variable. It can be thought of as an alternative way of expressing probability, much like odds or log-odds, but which has particular mathematical advantages in…

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Information content

Nodes98
Edges97
Triples23
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020408
Components1

How this topic connects Entity context

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Information content

Top relations

related to Additivity of independent events · 5
Information content → Consider, Interpreting, Pr, The, This
related to Two independent, identically distributed dice · 5
Information content → DU, Pr, Sh, Suppose, The
related to Fair die roll · 4
Information content → DU, Sh, Suppose, The
related to Monotonically decreasing function of probability · 4
Information content → For, Specifically, Thus, While
related to Relationship to log-odds · 3
Information content → The, The Shannon, This
related to Relationship to entropy · 2
Information content → The, The Shannon

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

displaystyle information probability event log random events operatorname content variable pr text self-information shannon independent textstyle sh outcome function left

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Information contentrelated to Additivity of independent eventsThe0.60section
Information contentrelated to Additivity of independent eventsThis0.60section
Information contentrelated to Additivity of independent eventsConsider0.60section
Information contentrelated to Additivity of independent eventsPr0.60section
Information contentrelated to Additivity of independent eventsInterpreting0.60section
Information contentrelated to Fair die rollSuppose0.60section
Information contentrelated to Fair die rollThe0.60section
Information contentrelated to Fair die rollDU0.60section
Information contentrelated to Fair die rollSh0.60section
Information contentrelated to Monotonically decreasing function of probabilityFor0.60section
Information contentrelated to Monotonically decreasing function of probabilityThus0.60section
Information contentrelated to Monotonically decreasing function of probabilityWhile0.60section

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