Encyclopedia of Systems Biology

2013 Edition
| Editors: Werner Dubitzky, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Kwang-Hyun Cho, Hiroki Yokota

Entropy

Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_1554

Synonyms

Definition

Uncertainty (or Entropy, in the sense of Shannon’s information theory) is a quantitative measure for the uncertainty of the outcome of a random experiment modeled by a probabilistic variable. Given a probabilistic variable X with outcome set \( \mathcal{X} \)
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References

  1. Jaynes ET (1957) Information theory and statistical mechanics. Phys Rev 106(4):620–630CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Adaptive Systems Research GroupSchool of Computer Science, University of HertfordshireHatfieldUK