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Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments

From jacko <jackokring@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.compression
Subject Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments
Date 2012-03-15 16:27 -0700
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I suppose some of the other thread is trying to teach the difference between a infinite central limit distribution and the distribution formed by finite sampling from it.

In this sense the expectation of different quantities could be different. The entropy (or expected self information) E(I) may vary depending on the distribution statistics.

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Entropy Definition : Request for Comments LawCounsels <LawCounsels@aol.com> - 2012-03-13 01:40 -0700
  Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-13 10:13 +0100
    Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments LawCounsels <lawcounsels@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 10:03 -0700
      Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-13 19:25 +0100
        Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments LawCounsels <lawcounsels@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 11:56 -0700
          Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-13 20:38 +0100
            Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments lawcounsels@gmail.com - 2012-03-14 01:43 -0700
              Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments lawcounsels@gmail.com - 2012-03-14 01:46 -0700
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-14 12:09 +0100
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments LawCounsels <LawCounsels@aol.com> - 2012-03-14 08:52 -0700
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments lawcounsels@gmail.com - 2012-03-14 11:34 -0700
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-14 22:16 +0100
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments lawcounsels@gmail.com - 2012-03-14 23:29 -0700
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-15 12:10 +0100
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments lawcounsels@gmail.com - 2012-03-15 06:23 -0700
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-15 16:45 +0100
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments LawCounsels <LawCounsels@aol.com> - 2012-03-20 18:08 -0700
                Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-03-14 22:10 +0100
  Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 16:27 -0700
  Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 16:40 -0700
    Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 17:14 -0700
      Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 17:24 -0700
        Re: Entropy Definition : Request for Comments LawCounsels@aol.com - 2012-03-31 10:30 -0700

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