Information mutuelleDans la théorie des probabilités et la théorie de l'information, l'information mutuelle de deux variables aléatoires est une quantité mesurant la dépendance statistique de ces variables. Elle se mesure souvent en bit. L'information mutuelle d'un couple de variables représente leur degré de dépendance au sens probabiliste. Ce concept de dépendance logique ne doit pas être confondu avec celui de causalité physique, bien qu'en pratique l'un implique souvent l'autre.
Théorie de l'informationLa théorie de l'information, sans précision, est le nom usuel désignant la théorie de l'information de Shannon, qui est une théorie utilisant les probabilités pour quantifier le contenu moyen en information d'un ensemble de messages, dont le codage informatique satisfait une distribution statistique que l'on pense connaître. Ce domaine trouve son origine scientifique avec Claude Shannon qui en est le père fondateur avec son article A Mathematical Theory of Communication publié en 1948.
Interaction informationThe interaction information is a generalization of the mutual information for more than two variables. There are many names for interaction information, including amount of information, information correlation, co-information, and simply mutual information. Interaction information expresses the amount of information (redundancy or synergy) bound up in a set of variables, beyond that which is present in any subset of those variables. Unlike the mutual information, the interaction information can be either positive or negative.
Conditional mutual informationIn probability theory, particularly information theory, the conditional mutual information is, in its most basic form, the expected value of the mutual information of two random variables given the value of a third. For random variables , , and with support sets , and , we define the conditional mutual information as This may be written in terms of the expectation operator: . Thus is the expected (with respect to ) Kullback–Leibler divergence from the conditional joint distribution to the product of the conditional marginals and .
Variation of informationIn probability theory and information theory, the variation of information or shared information distance is a measure of the distance between two clusterings (partitions of elements). It is closely related to mutual information; indeed, it is a simple linear expression involving the mutual information. Unlike the mutual information, however, the variation of information is a true metric, in that it obeys the triangle inequality. Suppose we have two partitions and of a set into disjoint subsets, namely and .
RigourRigour (British English) or rigor (American English; see spelling differences) describes a condition of stiffness or strictness. These constraints may be environmentally imposed, such as "the rigours of famine"; logically imposed, such as mathematical proofs which must maintain consistent answers; or socially imposed, such as the process of defining ethics and law. "Rigour" comes to English through old French (13th c.
