Entropy and uncertainty

Robinson, Derek

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Entropy and uncertainty

Date

2008-10-16

Authors

Robinson, Derek

Publisher

Molecular Diversity Preservation International

Abstract

We give a survey of the basic statistical ideas underlying the definition of entropy in information theory and their connections with the entropy in the theory of dynamical systems and in statistical mechanics.