{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2147295875","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1968.1054094","title":"The amount of information that y gives about X","display_name":"The amount of information that y gives about X","publication_year":1968,"publication_date":"1968-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2147295875","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1968.1054094","mag":"2147295875"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/tit.1968.1054094","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1968.1054094","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4502562","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory","issn_l":"0018-9448","issn":["0018-9448","1557-9654"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5046866442","display_name":"Nelson M. Blachman","orcid":null},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"N. Blachman","raw_affiliation_strings":["Sylvania Electronics Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA","[Sylvania Electronics Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA]"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Sylvania Electronics Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"[Sylvania Electronics Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA]","institution_ids":[]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5046866442"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.9465,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":53,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.81011045,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"14","issue":"1","first_page":"27","last_page":"31"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12261","display_name":"Statistical Mechanics and Entropy","score":0.973800003528595,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3109","display_name":"Statistical and Nonlinear Physics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/31","display_name":"Physics and Astronomy"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12261","display_name":"Statistical Mechanics and Entropy","score":0.973800003528595,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3109","display_name":"Statistical and Nonlinear Physics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/31","display_name":"Physics and Astronomy"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12135","display_name":"Fuzzy Systems and Optimization","score":0.9484999775886536,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2613","display_name":"Statistics and Probability"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/26","display_name":"Mathematics"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12002","display_name":"Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms","score":0.9229000210762024,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1703","display_name":"Computational Theory and Mathematics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/measure","display_name":"Measure (data warehouse)","score":0.4653310179710388},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.4159352481365204},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-retrieval","display_name":"Information retrieval","score":0.33776113390922546},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/data-mining","display_name":"Data mining","score":0.1711549460887909}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780009758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6804172","display_name":"Measure (data warehouse)","level":2,"score":0.4653310179710388},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.4159352481365204},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C23123220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816826","display_name":"Information retrieval","level":1,"score":0.33776113390922546},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124101348","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172491","display_name":"Data mining","level":1,"score":0.1711549460887909}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/tit.1968.1054094","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1968.1054094","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4502562","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory","issn_l":"0018-9448","issn":["0018-9448","1557-9654"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":4,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1995875735","https://openalex.org/W2000149900","https://openalex.org/W2010484705","https://openalex.org/W2264297261"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2748952813","https://openalex.org/W2390279801","https://openalex.org/W2358668433","https://openalex.org/W4255837520","https://openalex.org/W2376932109","https://openalex.org/W2001405890","https://openalex.org/W2382290278","https://openalex.org/W2478288626","https://openalex.org/W4391913857","https://openalex.org/W2350741829"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"No":[0],"single":[1],"measure":[2,42],"<tex":[3,15,22,30,43,54,58,76],"xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"":[4,16,23,31,44,55,59,77],"xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">M(X;y)</tex>":[5,78],"of":[6,9,18,35,48,53,67],"the":[7,36,49,94],"amount":[8],"information":[10,52,99],"that":[11,65],"a":[12,19,87],"specific":[13],"value":[14],"xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">y</tex>":[17],"random":[20,28],"variable":[21,29],"xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">Y</tex>":[24,60],"gives":[25],"about":[26],"another":[27],"xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">X</tex>":[32,56],"has":[33],"all":[34],"desirable":[37],"properties":[38,69],"possessed":[39],"by":[40],"Shannon's":[41],"xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">I(X;Y)":[45],"=":[46],"E\\{M(X;y)\\}</tex>":[47],"average":[50],"mutual":[51],"and":[57,97],".":[61],"It":[62],"is":[63,93,101],"shown":[64],"one":[66,72],"these":[68],"(additivity)":[70],"determines":[71],"particular":[73],"form":[74],"for":[75],",":[79],"while":[80],"others":[81],"(non-negativity":[82],"or":[83],"coordinate":[84],"independance)":[85],"determine":[86],"different":[88],"form.":[89],"The":[90],"latter,":[91],"which":[92],"more":[95],"useful":[96],"accepted":[98],"measure,":[100],"thus":[102],"seen":[103],"to":[104],"be":[105],"unique.":[106]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":4}],"updated_date":"2025-11-06T03:46:38.306776","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}