Order-\(\alpha\) weighted information energy. (English) Zbl 0629.94007

Pardo, Leandro

Inf. Sci. 40, 155-164 (1986).

In this work an expression is given for the amount of information supplied by a probabilistic experiment whose elementary events are characterized by both their probabilities and some qualitative weights. This measure is called “order-\(\alpha\) weighted information energy”, and it is a generalization of the weighted information energy given by Theodorescu and studied extensively by the author. Some properties and an axiomatic treatment of the measure are given.

MSC:

94A17	Measures of information, entropy
94A15	Information theory (general)

Keywords:

amount of information; probabilistic experiment; weighted information energy

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