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We propose R\'enyi information generating function and discuss its properties. A connection between the R\'enyi information generating function and the diversity index is proposed for discrete type random variables. The relation between the…

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In this paper, we study the properties of the weighted entropy generating function (WEGF). We also introduce the weighted residual entropy generating function (WREGF) and establish some characterization results based on its connections with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Smitha S. , Mary Andrewsa , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

The weighted entropy $H^{\rm w}_\phi (X)=H^{\rm w}_\phi (f)$ of a random variable $X$ with values $x$ and a probability-mass/density function $f$ is defined as the mean value ${\mathbb E} I^{\rm w}_\phi(X)$ of the weighted information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Yuri Suhov , Izabella Stuhl

Given an arbitrary continuous probability density function, it is introduced a conjugated probability density, which is defined through the Shannon information associated with its cumulative distribution function. These new densities are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-26 H. M. de Oliveira , R. J. Cintra

We introduce and study the cumulative information generating function, which provides a unifying mathematical tool suitable to deal with classical and fractional entropies based on the cumulative distribution function and on the survival…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Marco Capaldo , Antonio Di Crescenzo , Alessandra Meoli

The notion of weighted Renyi's entropy for truncated random variables has recently been proposed in the information-theoretic literature. In this paper, we introduce a generalized measure of it for double truncated distribution, namely…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Shivangi Singh , Chanchal Kundu

Weighted Updating generalizes Bayesian updating, allowing for biased beliefs by weighting the likelihood function and prior distribution with positive real exponents. I provide a rigorous foundation for the model by showing that…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Jesse Aaron Zinn

The object of this paper is to introduce a new weighted information generating function whose derivative at point 1 gives some well known measures of information. Some properties and particular cases of the proposed generating function have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Amit Srivastava , Shikha Maheshwari

This paper introduces a framework for modeling cyclical and feedback-driven information flow through a generalized family of entropy-modulated transformations called derangetropy functionals. Unlike scalar and static entropy measures such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Masoud Ataei , Xiaogang Wang

Weighted extropy has recently emerged as a flexible information measure for quantifying uncertainty, with particular relevance to order statistics. In this paper, we introduce and study a weighted cumulative analogue of extropy, extending…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Santosh Kumar Chaudhary , Sarikul Islam , Nitin Gupta

The extropy is a measure of information introduced by Lad et al. (2015) as dual to entropy. As the entropy, it is a shift-independent information measure. We introduce here the notion of weighted extropy, a shift-dependent information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan , Francesco Buono , Maria Longobardi

Shannon Information theory has achieved great success in not only communication technology where it was originally developed for but also many other science and engineering fields such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Arthur Jun Zhang

The concept of Shannon entropy of random variables was generalized to measurable functions in general, and to simple functions with finite values in particular. It is shown that the information measure of a function is related to the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Guo Zhao

We introduce an information order on experiments based on weighted garbling, a generalization of the standard notion of garbling. In this order, an experiment is more informative than another if the latter is a weighted garbling of the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-12 Daehyun Kim , Ichiro Obara

We consider a "length-biased" shift-dependent information measure, related to the differential entropy in which higher weight is assigned to large values of observed random variables. This allows us to introduce the notions of "weighted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-27 Antonio Di Crescenzo , Maria Longobardi

Information generating functions have been used for generating various entropy and divergence measures. In the present work, we introduce quantile based relative information generating function and study its properties. The proposed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Sankaran P. G. , Sunoj S. M. , Pavithra Hariharan

This article proposes a new two-parameter generalized entropy, which can be reduced to the Tsallis and the Shannon entropy for specific values of its parameters. We develop a number of information-theoretic properties of this generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Supriyo Dutta , Shigeru Furuichi , Partha Guha

Following [1], the aim of this paper is to analyze the relative weighted entropy involving the central moments weight functions. We compare the standard relative entropy with the weighted case in two particular forms of Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Adriano Polpo

An information theory description of finite systems explicitly evolving in time is presented for classical as well as quantum mechanics. We impose a variational principle on the Shannon entropy at a given time while the constraints are set…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Chomaz , Francesca Gulminelli , Olivier Juillet

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), simulation practices, system models, algorithms, and protocols have been published worldwide based on the assumption of randomness. The applied statistics used for randomness in WSNs are broad in nature,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Dinesh Kumar Sah , Praveen Kumar Donta , Tarachand Amgoth
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