Information theory
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Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information. Historically, information theory was developed to find fundamental limits on compressing and reliably communicating data. Since its inception it has broadened to find applications in many other areas, including statistical inference, networks other than communication networks as in neurobiology.
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See also
- Algorithmic probability
- Algorithmic information theory
- Bayesian inference
- Communication theory
- Constructor theory - a generalization of information theory that includes quantum information
- Inductive probability
- Minimum message length
- Minimum description length
- List of important publications
- Philosophy of information
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Applications
- Active networking
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptography
- Cybernetics
- Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory
- Gambling
- Intelligence (information gathering)
- Seismic exploration
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History
- Hartley, R.V.L.
- History of information theory
- Shannon, C.E.
- Timeline of information theory
- Yockey, H.P.
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Theory
- Coding theory
- Detection theory
- Estimation theory
- Fisher information
- Information algebra
- Information asymmetry
- Information field theory
- Information geometry
- Information theory and measure theory
- Kolmogorov complexity
- Logic of information
- Network coding
- Philosophy of Information
- Quantum information science
- Semiotic information theory
- Source coding
- Unsolved Problems
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Concepts
- Ban (unit)
- Channel capacity
- Channel (communications)
- Communication source
- Conditional entropy
- Covert channel
- Decoder
- Differential entropy
- Encoder
- Information entropy
- Joint entropy
- Kullback–Leibler divergence
- Mutual information
- Pointwise mutual information (PMI)
- Receiver (information theory)
- Redundancy
- Rényi entropy
- Self-information
- Unicity distance
- Variety
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