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1. The law asserts that for two given macroscopically specified states of a system, there is a quantity called the difference of information entropy between them.
2. In practice, information entropy is almost always calculated using base 2 logarithms, but this distinction amounts to nothing other than a change in units.
3. Shannon developed information entropy as a measure for the uncertainty in a message while essentially inventing what became known as the dominant form of information theory.
4. Using a statistical description for data, information theory quantifies the number of bits needed to describe the data, which is the information entropy of the source.
5. In information theoretic terms, the information entropy of a system is the amount of " missing " information needed to determine a microstate, given the macrostate.
6. Therefore, the information entropy must also remain constant, if we condition on the original information, and then follow each of those microstates forward in time:
7. Indices of qualitative variation are then analogous to information entropy, which is minimized when all cases belong to a single category and maximized in a uniform distribution.
8. The purpose of these corruptions is effectively to lower the information entropy of the data, enabling the data structure to break through information-theoretic barriers regarding heaps.
9. It also developed the concepts of information entropy and redundancy, and introduced the term bit ( which Shannon credited to John Tukey ) as a unit of information.
10. This is equivalent to Information Entropy divided by the \ log _ 2 ( K ) and is useful for comparing relative variation between frequency tables of multiple sizes.