Entropy 2008, 10(4), 493-506; doi:10.3390/e10040493
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Entropy and Uncertainty

Derek W. Robinsonemail
Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Received: 17 June 2008 / Accepted: 6 August 2008 / Published: 16 October 2008
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007)
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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.
Keywords: Entropy; relative entropy; uncertainty; information theory

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