Understanding Claude Shannon's Formula for Information and …
2018年10月24日 · I'm trying to understand Shannon's formula for information as entropy in some detail. (I'm obviously not a trained mathematician, so please bear with me). Here's what I understand and then following are two questions. Suppose I have a message composed of "a" where "a" is a symbol in a set X of 32 symbols.
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2022年5月29日 · Then you cannot use Shannon Entropy but can you Renyi entropy as an approximation to the number of questions. $\endgroup$ – kodlu Commented May 31, 2022 at 14:11
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From this slide, it's said that the smallest possible number of bits per symbol is as the Shannon Entropy formula defined: I've read this post , and still not quite understand how is this formula derived from the perspective of encoding with bits.
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2013年3月15日 · To put it simply, we are almost certain that the $\log()$ will be $2^{-nH}$ (that is a decreasing function of the Shannon Entropy). The higher the Shannon entropy, almost certainly the smaller the reduction!. Strange examples. The success of the Shannon Entropy is due to the fact that we can decently forget the "almost" word in the last sentence.
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Then, the empirical probabilities of the symbols will be $\frac{3}{17},\frac{5}{17},\frac{4}{17},\frac{4}{17},\frac{1}{17}$ respectively, and from this you can calculate the empirical Shannon entropy to really be roughly $2.18$, which is …
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2016年4月30日 · which is Shannon Entropy formula only using simple functions like log or squareroot or I don't know, just make it simple enough for a guy that does understand only grammar school math, if that is possible, so I don't understand this at all.
Shannon entropy of a fair dice - Mathematics Stack Exchange
2018年9月14日 · The formula for Shannon entropy is as follows, $$\text{Entropy}(S) = - \sum_i p_i \log_2 p_i $$ Thus, a fair six sided dice should have the entropy, $$- \sum_{i=1}^6 \dfrac{1}{6} \log_2 \dfrac{1...
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Shannon formally defined the amount of information in a message as a function of the probability of the occurrence of each possible message[1]. Given a universe of messages $\mathbf{M} = \{ m_1,m_2,..,m_n \}$ and a probability $\mathbf{p(m_i)}$ for the occurrence of each message, the information content of a message in $\mathbf{M}$ is given by:
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Proof of Shannon's entropy formula: Suppose that $p_1,...,p_n$, …
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