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Peer reviewedHintikka, Jaakko – Information Processing and Management, 1984
This essay distinguishes several different kinds of measures of information from each other, noting that differences between them show that our pretheoretical concept of information is multiply ambiguous. Incremental information, conditional information, transmitted information, expected information, and deductive information are discussed. Ten…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Fundamental Concepts, Information Science, Information Theory
Peer reviewedPao, Miranda Lee; McCreery, Laurie – Information Processing and Management, 1986
A rudimentary description of Markov Chains is presented in order to introduce its use to describe and to predict authors' movements among subareas of the discipline of ethnomusicology. Other possible applications are suggested. (Author)
Descriptors: Authors, Models, Predictive Measurement, Probability
