Basic Concepts, Identities and Inequalities - the Toolkit of Information Theory

Flemming Topsøe

doi:10.3390/e3030162

You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

Article

30 September 2001

Basic Concepts, Identities and Inequalities - the Toolkit of Information Theory

Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Entropy2001, 3(3), 162-190;https://doi.org/10.3390/e3030162

Version Notes

Order Reprints

Abstract

Basic concepts and results of that part of Information Theory which is often referred to as "Shannon Theory" are discussed with focus mainly on the discrete case. The paper is expository with some new proofs and extensions of results and concepts.

Keywords:

entropy; divergence; mutual information; concavity; convexity; data reduction

Article Metrics

Citations

Article Access Statistics

Journal Statistics

Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.

The Role of Hellinger Processes in Mathematical Finance

Maximum Entropy Fundamentals