Definition: | quantitative measure of information about the occurrence of an event x of definite probability p(x), equal to the logarithm of the reciprocal of this probability EXAMPLE Let be a set of three events and let , and be the probabilities of their occurrences. The information contents of these events are: , , . Note 1 to entry: For a set of equiprobable events, the information content of each event is equal to the decision content of the set.
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