INTERACTION INFORMATION IN MULTIVARIATE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS.

Abstract

It is shown in this note that the entropy of a multivariate distribution can be expressed in terms of the sum of onedimensional marginal entropies, the sum of transmitted information between each pair of component variables, the sum of interaction information in trivariate component distributions, and so on. Using this result, the author gives a class of multivariate distributions having specified component densities and some preassigned association measure between some component variables. Proofs of equations and statements which are not so evident are also given.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 13, 1965
Accession Number
AD0623954

Entities

People

  • Minoru Sakaguchi

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Equations
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Statistical inference.