Sushmita posted an Question
September 18, 2020 • 18:53 pm 30 points
  • UGC NET
  • Management

Meaning of entropy in communication

meaning of entropy, redundancy, equifinality,and pragmatic effect in communication ?? pls tell

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    Ronak kumari upadhyay

    Entropy When we observe the possibilities of the occurrence of an event, how surprising or uncertain it would be, it means that we are trying to have an idea on the average content of the information from the source of the event. Entropy can be defined as a measure of the average information content per source symbol. Claude Shannon, the “father of the Information Theory”, provided a formula for it as − H=−∑ipilogbpi

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    Entropy When we observe the possibilities of the occurrence of an event, how surprising or uncertain it would be, it means that we are trying to have an idea on the average content of the information from the source of the event. Entropy can be defined as a measure of the average information content per source symbol. Claude Shannon, the “father of the Information Theory”, provided a formula for it as − H=−∑ipilogbpi

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