Entropies with and without probabilities. Applications to questionnaires (Q800289)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3877069
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    Entropies with and without probabilities. Applications to questionnaires
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3877069

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      Entropies with and without probabilities. Applications to questionnaires (English)
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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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