Entropies with and without probabilities. Applications to questionnaires (Q800289)
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Entropies with and without probabilities. Applications to questionnaires (English)
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1984
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Several aspects of information theory are presented, using entropies with or without probabilities: inset entropies, measures of uncertainty associated with a real valued random variable and studied by means of a general representation, conditional entropies stemming from statistical mechanics. Applications to questionnaire theory are given.
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inset entropies
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measures of uncertainty
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conditional entropies
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