AM 481CApplications of Information Theory
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1993–94
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1993–94; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Measures of information: probabilistic, mixed and nonprobabilistic. Measures of uncertainty (entropies). Entropies for continuous random variables. The maximum entropy principle and its applications to statistical mechanics, optimal discretization and quantization of random variables, image representation and pattern recognition. Applications to questionnaires. Optimal questionnaires. Formerly AM 380B
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1993–94 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Cross-listed as PMATH 380B
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1989–90 to 1993–94, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1989–90 to 1993–94 5 calendars
Measures of information: probabilistic, mixed and nonprobabilistic. Measures of uncertainty (entropies). Entropies for continuous random variables. The maximum entropy principle and its applications to statistical mechanics, optimal discretization and quantization of random variables, image representation and pattern recognition. Applications to questionnaires. Optimal questionnaires.
Formerly AM 380B
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Cross-listed as PMATH 380B
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.