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In Reliability Theory, uncertainty is measured by the Shannon entropy. Recently, in order to analyze the variability of such measure, varentropy has been introduced and studied. In this paper we define a new concept of varentropy for past…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Francesco Buono , Maria Longobardi

Recently Qiu et al. (2017) have introduced residual extropy as measure of uncertainty in residual lifetime distributions analogues to residual entropy (1996). Also, they obtained some properties and applications of that. In this paper, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Osman Kamari , Francesco Buono

Ebrahimi (1996) has shown that the measure of residual entropy characterizes the distribution function uniquely. In this communication we study an analogous result for past entropy.

Applications · Statistics 2012-03-08 Richa Thapliyal , H. C. Taneja

In the present work, we provide the asymptotic behavior of the residual-past entropy, of the mean residual-past lifetime distribution and of the residual-past inaccuracy measure. We are interested in these measures of uncertainty in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Ba Amadou Diadie

Entropy has emerged as a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and widely accepted quantitative measure of uncertainty across different disciplines. A unified understanding of entropy measures, supported by a detailed review of their theoretical…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Naveen Kumar , Ambesh Dixit , Vivek Vijay

This letter reports two moment extensions of the entropy of a distribution. By understanding the traditional entropy as the average of the original distribution up to a random variable transformation, the traditional moments equation become…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-25 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

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 study on the generating function approach to entropy become popular as it generates several well-known entropy measures discussed in the literature. In this work, we define the weighted cumulative residual entropy generating function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Smitha S. , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil , Sreedevi E. P

Entropy serves as a central observable in equilibrium thermodynamics. However, many biological and ecological systems operate far from thermal equilibrium. Here we show that entropy production can characterize the behavior of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Benjamin Andrae , Jonas Cremer , Tobias Reichenbach , Erwin Frey

Entropy production is often interpreted as a proxy for microscopic disorder or environmental roughness in stochastic systems. We test this interpretation using controlled simulations of overdamped stochastic dynamics on curved surfaces in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Patrick Romanescu

Based on the q-exponential distribution which has been observed in more and more physical systems, the varentropy method is used to derive the uncertainty measure of such an abnormal distribution function. The uncertainty measure obtained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Congjie Ou , Aziz El Kaabouchi , Qiuping A. Wang , Jincan Chen

In this work, we study the properties of cumulative residual entropy generating function. We then introduce dynamic cumulative residual entropy generating function (DCREGF). It is shown that the DCREGF determines the distribution uniquely.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Smitha S. , Sudheesh K. K. , Sreedevi E. P.

The rate of entropy production by a stochastic process quantifies how far it is from thermodynamic equilibrium. Equivalently, entropy production captures the degree to which detailed balance and time-reversal symmetry are broken. Despite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Luca Cocconi , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Zigan Zhen , Bianca Buturca , Gunnar Pruessner

The total entropy production fluctuations are studied in some exactly solvable models. For these systems, the detailed fluctuation theorem holds even in the transient state, provided initially the system is prepared in thermal equilibrium.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-08 Arnab Saha , Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

Entropy production is a key quantity in any finite-time thermodynamic process. It is intimately tied with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, embodying a tool to extend thermodynamic considerations all the way to non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Gabriel T. Landi , Mauro Paternostro

The time variation of entropy, as an alternative to the variance, is proposed as a measure of the diffusion rate. It is shown that for linear and time-translationally invariant systems having a large-time limit for the density, at large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-24 Amir Aghamohammadi , Amir H. Fatollahi , Mohammad Khorrami , Ahmad Shariati

The stochastic entropy generated during the evolution of a system interacting with an environment may be separated into three components, but only two of these have a non-negative mean. The third component of entropy production is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ian J. Ford , Richard E. Spinney

Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

The relationship between three probability distributions and their maximizable entropy forms is discussed without postulating entropy property. For this purpose, the entropy I is defined as a measure of uncertainty of the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Qiuping A. Wang

For a Markovian dynamics on discrete states, the logarithmic ratio of waiting-time distributions between two successive, instantaneous transitions in forward and backward direction is a measure of time-irreversibility. It thus serves as an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-13 Ellen Meyberg , Julius Degünther , Udo Seifert
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