Thursday, April 19, 2007

Lab 10



Shannon's entropy is one that removes our uncertainty. It is the number of yes/no questions that we need to ask in order to determine what we no is not right. Hartley is nonspecific. It tells us what the correct alternative is. It deals with uncertainty but in a different way. It is the amount of uncertainty associated with a set of alternatives and is measured by the amount of information needed to remove the uncertainty.

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