inequality in information theory
C41080
concept
An inequality in information theory is a mathematical relation that bounds or compares information-theoretic quantities—such as entropy, mutual information, or divergence—to reveal fundamental limits on data compression, communication, and inference.
Observed surface forms (5)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| bound on error probability | 1 |
| channel capacity theorem | 1 |
| coding theorem | 1 |
| information theory theorem | 1 |
| information-theoretic inequality | 1 |
Instances (4)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
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Mark Pinsker
surface form:
Pinsker's inequality
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| Fano inequality | information-theoretic inequality |
| Slepian–Wolf coding theorem | information theory theorem |
| Shannon–Hartley theorem | channel capacity theorem |