Thursday, April 19, 2007

Lab 10 Post



Although the Hartley Uncertainty and Shannon's Entropy both measure uncertainty, they do this in two different ways. Shannon's Entropy uses probability to calculate the amount of uncertainty and also calculates the probability of an alternative occuring. Hartley Uncertainty only measures the amound of information needed to remove uncertainty, and how many yes-no questions needed to arrive at a correct alternative.

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