But if we begin to look at entropy in business from a scientific perspective, as a measure of probability instead of chaos, this is where the true business value lies. Take your kitchen, for example.

The entropy score of an observed outcome that has been given a probability forecast p is defined to be -log p. If p is derived from a probability model and there is a background model for which the ...

The purpose of The Annals of Probability is to publish contributions to the theory of probability and statistics and their applications. The emphasis is on importance and interest; formal novelty and ...

He was intuitively making lower-entropy words when he was making his non-words," said Westbury. "It essentially comes down to the probability of the individual letters.

By studying how surprisal and entropy — called information-theoretic considerations — affect vowel duration in a language where vowel duration is governed by a mora-timing, the researchers hoped to ...