Quantifying Unique Information

Quantifying Unique Information

We propose new measures of shared information, unique information and synergistic information that can be used to decompose the mutual information of a pair of random variables (Y, Z) with a third random variable X. Our measures are motivated by an operational idea of unique information, which sugge...

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Main Authors: Nils Bertschinger, Johannes Rauh, Eckehard Olbrich, Jürgen Jost, Nihat Ay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-04-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
Shannon information
mutual information
information decomposition
shared information
synergy
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/4/2161

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