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相互情報量 (そうごじょうほうりょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

相そう互ご情じょう報ほう量りょう

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ご

じょ

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ほ

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う

Meanings

1

mutual information; transinformation

Technical term in information theory and computing, measuring the amount of information shared between two variables.

相そう互ご情じょう報ほう量りょうは、二

ふた

つ

の

確かく

率りつ

変へん

数すう

の

間あいだ

の

依い

存ぞん

度ど

を

測はか

る

尺しゃく

度ど

で

ある

。

Mutual information is a measure of the dependence between two random variables.

このアルゴリズムは相そう互ご情じょう報ほう量りょうを最さい大だい化かするように設せっ計けいされている。

This algorithm is designed to maximize mutual information.

Kanji

相inter-, mutual, together
互mutually, reciprocally, together
情feelings, emotion, passion
報report, news, reward
量quantity, measure, weight

Related words

情じょう報ほう量りょう
情報量 is the general term for 'amount of information' or 'information content', while 相互情報量 specifically refers to the shared information between two variables.
エントロピー
エントロピー (entropy) measures the uncertainty of a single variable, whereas 相互情報量 quantifies the reduction in uncertainty of one variable given knowledge of the other.

Built from

相そう互ご+情

Etymology

Compound of 相互 (mutual) + 情報 (information) + 量 (amount). A direct translation of the English term 'mutual information'.

じょう

報ほう

量りょう