Assessing Conceptual Complexity and Compressibility Using Information Gain and Mutual Information
In this paper, a few basic notions stemming from information theory are presented with the intention of modeling the abstraction of relevant information in categorization tasks. In a categorization task, a single output variable is the basis for performing a dichotomic classification of objects that...
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| Language: | English |
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Université d'Ottawa
2010-03-01
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| Series: | Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.tqmp.org/Content/vol06-1/p016/p016.pdf |