information theory


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Information theory
Information theory is a branch of applied mathematicselectrical engineering, and computer science involving the quantificationstorage, and communication of information. Information theory was originally developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing and communication operations such as data compression. Since its inception in a landmark 1948 paper by Shannon entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", it has been broadened to find applications in many other areas, including statistical inferencenatural language processingcryptographyneurobiology, the evolution and function of molecular codes, model selection in ecology, thermal physics, quantum computinglinguistics, plagiarism detection, pattern recognitionanomaly detection and other forms of data analysis.

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