Novelty, Information and Surprise

Novelty, Information and Surprise
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9783642290756
ISBN-13 : 3642290752
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Book Synopsis Novelty, Information and Surprise by : Günther Palm

Download or read book Novelty, Information and Surprise written by Günther Palm and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a new approach to information theory that is more general then the classical approach by Shannon. The classical definition of information is given for an alphabet of symbols or for a set of mutually exclusive propositions (a partition of the probability space Ω) with corresponding probabilities adding up to 1. The new definition is given for an arbitrary cover of Ω, i.e. for a set of possibly overlapping propositions. The generalized information concept is called novelty and it is accompanied by two new concepts derived from it, designated as information and surprise, which describe "opposite" versions of novelty, information being related more to classical information theory and surprise being related more to the classical concept of statistical significance. In the discussion of these three concepts and their interrelations several properties or classes of covers are defined, which turn out to be lattices. The book also presents applications of these new concepts, mostly in statistics and in neuroscience.


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