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An information theoretic measure is derived that quantifies the statistical coherence between systems evolving in time. The standard time delayed mutual information fails to distinguish information that is actually exchanged from shared…

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This study introduces the syntropy function ($S_N$) and expectancy function ($E_N$), derived from the novel function $\phi$, to provide a refined perspective on complexity, extending beyond conventional entropy analysis. $S_N$ is designed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-21 Santiago Mendez-Moreno

Human communication is commonly represented as a temporal social network, and evaluated in terms of its uniqueness. We propose a set of new entropy-based measures for human communication dynamics represented within the temporal social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Marcin Kulisiewicz , Przemysław Kazienko , Bolesław K. Szymański , Radosław Michalski

We extend previously proposed measures of complexity, emergence, and self-organization to continuous distributions using differential entropy. This allows us to calculate the complexity of phenomena for which distributions are known. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-04-01 Guillermo Santamaría-Bonfil , Nelson Fernández , Carlos Gershenson

We propose a unified theoretical framework for quantifying spatio-temporal interactions in a stochastic dynamical system based on information geometry. In the proposed framework, the degree of interactions is quantified by the divergence…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-08 Masafumi Oizumi , Naotsugu Tsuchiya , Shun-ichi Amari

Existing research on negations primarily focuses on entropy and extropy. Recently, new functions such as varentropy and varextropy have been developed, which can be considered as extensions of entropy and extropy. However, the impact of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Santosh Kumar Chaudhary , Pradeep Kumar Sahu , Nitin Gupta

In this paper we introduce a biparametric family of transformations which can be seen as an extension of the so-called up and down transformations. This new class of transformations allows to us to introduce new informational functionals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , David Puertas-Centeno

Analysis of a probabilistic system often requires to learn the joint probability distribution of its random variables. The computation of the exact distribution is usually an exhaustive precise analysis on all executions of the system. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Fabrizio Biondi , Yusuke Kawamoto , Axel Legay , Louis-Marie Traonouez

Distributed computation in artificial life and complex systems is often described in terms of component operations on information: information storage, transfer and modification. Information modification remains poorly described however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Joseph T. Lizier , Benjamin Flecker , Paul L. Williams

We present estimators for entropy and other functions of a discrete probability distribution when the data is a finite sample drawn from that probability distribution. In particular, for the case when the probability distribution is a joint…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 David H. Wolpert , David R. Wolf

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

Understanding the way in which random entities interact is of key interest in numerous scientific fields. This can range from a full characterization of the joint distribution to single scalar summary statistics. In this work we identify a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Yaniv Tenzer , Gal Elidan

Entropy is useful in statistical problems as a measure of irreversibility, randomness, mixing, dispersion, and number of microstates. However, there remains ambiguity over the precise mathematical formulation of entropy, generalized beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 Vladimir Zhdankin

This article introduces the physics of information in the context of molecular biology and genomics. Entropy and information, the two central concepts of Shannon's theory of information and communication, are often confused with each other…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Christoph Adami

Recently, varextropy has been introduced as a new dispersion index and a measure of information. In this article, we derive the generating function of extropy and present its infinite series representation. Furthermore, we propose new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Faranak Goodarzi , Somayeh Ghafouri

A central task in analyzing complex dynamics is to determine the loci of information storage and the communication topology of information flows within a system. Over the last decade and a half, diagnostics for the latter have come to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-20 Ryan G. James , Nix Barnett , James P. Crutchfield

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for complex-valued probability measures and explores their novel applications in information theory and statistical analysis. We define a complex probability measure as a phase-modulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Siang Cheng , Hejun Xu , Tianxiao Pang

The concept of Entropy plays a key role in Information Theory, Statistics, and Machine Learning.This paper introduces a new entropy measure, called the t-entropy, which exploits the concavity of the inverse-tan function. We analytically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Debolina Paul , Swagatam Das

We extend present Shannon's static statistical information theory to dynamic processes and establish a dynamic statistical information theory. We derive the nonlinear evolution equations of dynamic information density and dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xing Xiu-San

There are numerous characterizations of Shannon entropy and Tsallis entropy as measures of information obeying certain properties. Using work by Faddeev and Furuichi, we derive a very simple characterization. Instead of focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 John C. Baez , Tobias Fritz , Tom Leinster