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In information theory, the one-symbol information of two random variables X and Y is a quantity that measures the contribution to the mutual information I(X;Y) of a single symbol
As for mutual information, the most common unit of measurement of One-symbol Information is the bit, when logarithms to the base 2 are used.
Definition of One-symbol Information
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[edit]- M.R. DeWeese and M. Meister.(1999) How to measure the information gained from one symbol in Network: Comput. Neural Syst, 10:325-340, 1999.
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