On Guessing and Coding

Günther Palm
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Günther Palm: University of Ulm, Neural Information Processing

Chapter Chapter 4 in Novelty, Information and Surprise, 2012, pp 51-62 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In Chap. 2 we defined thenovelty of a proposition as a special function of its probability p(A). We motivated the definition $$\mathcal{N}(A) = {-\log }_{2}p(A)$$ by the idea that $$\mathcal{N}(A)$$ should measure the number of yes–no questions needed to guess A.

Keywords: Guessing Strategy; Huffman Coding; Minimum Average Length; Irreducible Code; Theinformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29075-6_4

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