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information entropy

Scope: methodological
Papers: 4 | Mentions: 4

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Knowledge graph centered on information entropy with 40 nodes and 131 connections. Top connected: Maximum information entropy: a foundation for ecol, Does sociality drive the evolution of communicativ, Evolving communicative complexity: insights from r, species diversity, space use.

Definition

A quantitative measure of uncertainty about an outcome of a draw from a probability distribution

Related Terms (1)

Shannon-Wiener formula

Publications (4)

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DynaMETE: a hybrid MaxEnt-plus-mechanism theory of dynamic macroecology

2021Ecology Lettersmeasured variable
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Maximum information entropy: a foundation for ecological theory

2014Trends in Ecology and Evolutionframework
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Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

2012Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesframework
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Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls

1997American Naturalistframework

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