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Conceptual question on entropy and its relation to information

Learning Informative Statistics: A Nonparametric Approach paper presents an approach to parameter estimation by entropy minimization. There are other related works "Minimum-entropy estimation in semi …
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Difficulties in understanding mutual information concept

What does mutual information (MI) convey? If 2 signals are independent then MI is zero; What does this imply and mean in the case of mutual information of error, and in general definition of MI and e …
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Relationship between entropy and SNR

In general any form of enropy is defined as uncertainty or randomness. In a noisy environment, with increase in noise, I believe that entropy increases since we are more uncertain about the informatio …
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What is the meaning of channel capacity?

If the transmitted information signal takes values from a modulation constellation, then is there a way to know what the channel capacity is? Is there a connection between the modulation kind and t …
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