PMATH 380BApplications of Information Theory
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1976–77 to 1994–95; 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.
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Cross-listed as AM 481C
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1994–95, 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 1994–95 6 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.
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Cross-listed as AM 481C
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1989–90 PDF p. 424
- 1990–91 PDF p. 440
- 1991–92 PDF p. 449
- 1992–93 PDF p. 440
- 1993–94* PDF p. 443
- 1994–95 PDF p. 446
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
1984–85 to 1988–89 5 calendars
Measures of conditional uncertainty (entropy). Maximizing conditional entropies. Applications to statistical physics, statistics, pattern recognition. Special entropies in questionnaire theory. Design of optimal questionnaires. Special entropies in dynamical systems. Basics in dynamical systems. Prereq: Consent of instructor Cross-listed as AM 380B
3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1977–78 to 1983–84 calendars.
1976–77 1 calendar
Measures of expected conditional information. Maximizing expected conditional information.
Applications to communication theory and programming.
Basics in questionnaire theory. Prerequisite: PMath 380a 2 hours lectures, | hour tutorial. One term” «+